Basque Television

ETB(Euskal Telebista) is the Basque Television Network. There are four channels run by the ETB network: ETB1, ETB2, ETB3, ETBSAT.

ETB1 and ETB3 are always in basque. ETB2 is always in spanish, and ETBSAT is sometimes in spanish and sometimes in basque. ETBSAT is the satellite channel which means it's probably possible to watch basque TV in the states.

After being here for two months and refusing to watch anything else besides basque tv it remains clear to me that the basque people are infatuated with Japanese anime. On ETB1 there's always some sort of anime show. Nowadays when I'm sitting in front of my old tv in my room eating breakfast before school they put on a cooking themed japanese anime. The show is about a kid who has an unusual talent for cooking and it's always way too melodramatic. It's like dragonball-Z meets Iron chef.

The TV in my room only has ETB1, so I've grown accustomed to it. It took me a really long time to just get over the fact that I was watching TV in Basque, and even now I'm still taken aback when I see something like Popeye. First of all because I've never actually seen that show before, and second because the first time I do see it it's in basque. The same thing happened with the rugrats, because I hadn't seen that show in like ten years.

Aitor directs a show called Goenkale on ETB1, which is the most successfull basque soap opera ever. Right now it's in its fifteenth season. It's really great for learning basque, but it's definitely not something I'd watch if it were in english.
I try not to watch TV on the weekend because it's usually just sports. Pretty much all day every sunday they show Pilota games. It's an interesting sport. I want to play it sometime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Pelota