Le debut de la television au cameroun
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Abstract EN:
Camoeroon, a bilingual country in french and english, whose economy looks promising has waited about a quarter of a century before acquiring a television. Today, the euphoria of the population is sure rove of the interest it has for this new medium which combines sound and image. Ameroenians therefore, not only read and listen to events new, but also watch them on television. Thus what at the beginning look like a dream has become concrete reality. Cameroonians now live with television in their daily lives. Despite this enthusiasm, the cameroonian public has some remarks to make. A greate percentage fo the programmes is foreign, and western. Whereas cameroon being a multicultural country has a lot of resources for tv production and these would furnish cameroonians with a variety of things they are familiar with as well as those remote from them. In view of these remarks a change looks evident if cameroon television has to win the confidence of her televiewers. Television is art and all art that loses touch with its public risks losing its value. It really has to be cameroonian. In other words the cameroonian public expects a true reflection of the country's physionomy from this new machine. It should produce local programmes such as on agriculture, handicraft and culture. In short, televiewers should be served to greater extent with local products.
Abstract FR:
Le cameroun, pays a la fois francophone et anglophone dont la croissance economique semble positive a donc attendu pres d'un quart de siecle pour acquerir la television. Aujourd'hui, l'euphorie manifestee par les populations temoigne de l'interet que celles-ci portent a ce nouveau media qui allie simultanement l'image et le son. Ainsi les camerounais peuvent non seulement lire et entendre, mais aussi voir au depart, ce qui pouvait paraitre comme un reve s'est finalement avere une realite le cameroun et les camerounais comptent desormais avec la television dans leur vie quotidienne. Malgre cet enthousiasme, le public camerounais a quelques remarques a faire. Un grand pourcentage des programmes est etranger. Et pourtant, le cameroun, pays multiculturel a beaucoup de ressources pour la production de la television et celle -ci ferait en sorte que le camerounais s'observe dans son miroir c'est-a-dire qu'il vive les realites du pays a partir des emissions locales de la television. Compte tenu de toutes ces remarques, un changement s'avere necessaire si la television camerounaise a reellement besoin de la confiance de ses telespectateurs. La tv est un art et tout art qui perd contact avec sonpublic risque de s'etioler. Celle-ci doit etre vraiment camerounaise. En d'autres mots, le public camerounais doit attendre de cette nouvelle machine une craie physionomie de son pays, de la production des emissions locales telle que les emissions agricoles, artisanales, culturelles, bref une grande part des programmes nationaux doivent etre sentis par les telespectateurs.