--- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:29:19 -0400 >From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7670 International Television >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> The best choice does depend on the school. Both the diversity and the size of the student body/faculty are relevant. Here at UF with a large international student body/faculty and many languages taught it would be great if we could afford SCOLA--but since they charge by the number of students, the price would be astronomical. For a smaller school with the need for many languages, it would be perfect. We subscribed to the Dish Network a while ago. The dish is managed by Campus Video Services. The infrastructure was pretty expensive but once we got it in place they are averaging out the one-time cost of each new channel at $500 for the equipment needed to pull that channel out of the package. In addition, of course, the subscriptions have to be paid annually. Some Dishnetwork channels come in packages, though, so that one annual subscription buys several channels (Spanish and Arabic notably). Rachida mentions Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. You can get an Arabic package (Al-Jazeera plus some movie networks), TV5, a Hebrew channel, RAI, NHK, a Portuguese package or one station, and a Spanish package. The one language they DON't seem to carry is German, for which one needs a separate dish and everything for Deutsche Welle. Judy