Well, we could say there are more possibilities to acces to Basque and Catalan media than few years ago. So that helps to develop the languages, but I still think the standard Spanish make them stay on its shadow. Tv in Spanish offers more options than the others do, and that makes us turn to watch the succesful programs.Eitb is the only TV channel which broadcasts in Basque, in my opinion they should have more of humorous section. The Basque used in most of the programs like films, series...is the standard, and the humor done in dialects are much more succesful.
Let's see a fraction of the humorous film Kutsidazu bidea, Ixabel, spoken in dialects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUAUOzN4Myc
For the people who don't speak Euskera: This is a guy who is learning the standard Basque, and he is living with a very very basque family. Family laugh at him because he is trying to speak the formal language, and they speak dialects.
The idea I want to transmit is if the dialects would be spoken in films, series...the audience would increase.
In the case of Catalan, there is a channel, TV3, which is exclusively in Catalan. It has a general programation, for the development of culture and the language. It is only broadcasted in Cataluña, but is possible to acces to it by other administrations.TV3 has been audience leader for 6 years, so we can say that it is quite popular and is developing the Catalan.
My conclusions are that thanks to media is possible to increase the speakers of the minority languages. It makes possible to be in touch with the language and is easier to learn it.
Although it could be better if we would have more options to choose and don't turn to the Spanish channels.
