SHORT TAKES : ‘MacNeil-Lehrer’ Goes Bilingual
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WASHINGTON — Public broadcasting’s “MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” will add simultaneous Spanish translations in January, the Corp. for Public Broadcasting said today.
The corporation, which is contributing $290,000 to fund a year of English-Spanish broadcasts, said “MacNeil-Lehrer” will be the first major nationally distributed news program to offer simultaneous second-language translation.
Thirty-seven public TV stations reaching more than half the nation’s 22 million Latinos will carry the translation, the corporation said.
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