In sweden also, I believe watching disney cartoons is a crucial part of their christmas celebrations.
Never happened in the uk, for some reason.
The tv and subtitle thing is great.
As a kid in germany on the dutch border we'd watch a lot of dutch telly - because the dutch used subtitles whereas the germans always dub things.
So I learnt to read dutch as akid from watching telly
I've lost most of it now (well it was over 40 years ago) but I was pretty fluent in reading dutch as a kid.