Spanish language roundup, 22 November 2009: more radio and television stations in the United States, Spanish becomes "abnormal" in Barcelona

Lots of links today related to Spanish, most about the US and one about Spain itself.

First one is here - Comcast in Detroit has added 11 new Spanish-language channels, bringing the total now to 55. This link has the full list of channels, which are:

     Channel         Network         Channel          Network

     -------         -------         -------          -------

          98        Univision         *627          TeleFormula

         601   Discovery en Espanol    628           Canal Sur

         602      CNN en Espanol      *629       TVE International

         603   Fox Sports en Espanol  *630          TV Colombia

        *604        Caracol TV        *631           TV Chile

         605         MTV Tr3s         *632         Latele Novela

         606    History en Espanol    *633          TBN Enlace

         607         Mun2             +634           Sorpresa

         608       Cinelatino          635            Si TV

        +609       Venemovies         *637         EWTN Espanol

        +610     Cine Mexicano        *638        Cable Noticias

         611       Telemundo          +639          Mexico 22

         612     ESPN Deportes       *+640          TeleRitmo

       *+613      El Garage TV         641         Once Mexico

       *+614       AYM Sports         *642          SUR Mexico

        *615       HTV Musica         *643           SUR Peru

        *616  Ecuavisa Internacional  *644        TV Dominicana

       *+617      Canal 52 MX        *+645    Telemicro Internacional

       *+618      Multimedios         *646      Telefe Internacional

       *+619      Cultural.es        *+647          Utilisima

        +620       Gran Cine         *+648       CBTV Michoacan

       *+621     Canal 24 Horas       *649           HITN-TV

         622        GolTV             *650         WAPA America

        +623       Infinito           *652       Ritmoson Latino

        +624      Video Rola          *653          Tele Hit

        *625     TV Venezuela         *654          Banda Max

        *626  La Familia Cosmovision  *655         De Pelicula


The next one here is about another radio station (this time in Houston) switching from English to Spanish. Some switch from Spanish to English though and I haven't seen any numbers indicating an overall trend either way.

One more link here is a bit more about the importance of Univision's partnership with YouTube.

Finally we have this one in Spanish protesting a vote in Barcelona calling Catalan the "unique and exclusive language of "normal" use in all the activities of the city", which the article says effectively makes Spanish an "abnormal" language, in spite of being the language spoken by 70% of the city's residents.