Television

Error message

Deprecated function: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in include_once() (line 14 of /home/mediacc/public_html/themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine).

UK government supports 20% audio description target

no

Following a long-running campaign by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the UK government has announced its support for a 20% target for audio description (AD) on television.

Following a long-running campaign by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the UK government has announced its support for a 20% target for audio description (AD) on television.

The announcement follows a review into access services conducted by the UK communications regulator Ofcom in 2009. Ofcom canvassed three options for the future of AD: leaving the target at its current 10%, increasing it to 20% over all channels, or increasing it to 20% on the 10 public service broadcasting channels.

Taxonomy: 
Television

Top of page

ASTRA responds to Human Rights Commission questions

no

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is currently considering an application for exemption from complaints under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) regarding captioning. As part of the decision process, the AHRC sent ASTRA a letter asking for further information on several points, and ASTRA has now responded.

Some of the points ASTRA makes in its letter are as follows:

Taxonomy: 
Television

Top of page

ACMA finds TCN Nine breached caption obligations

no

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that TCN Nine breached its captioning obligations under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 by failing to caption sections of four episodes of Nine News and one episode of RPA broadcast in July 2009.

As a consequence of the finding, Nine has agreed to introduce measures to prevent this happening again. These include enhanced quality control and ‘spot’ audits on programs, with Nine reporting the results to ACMA. Nine will also have regular meetings with its caption provider and other stakeholders regarding caption quality and transmission, and will upgrade its caption transmission monitoring.

Taxonomy: 
Television

Top of page

Channel 4 in the UK announces 100% captioning

no

In the wake of its announcement that it will be increasing audio description (AD) to 20% of programming on all of its channels, Channel 4 has announced that it will also increase captioning to 100% by January 2011.

The decisions to increase captioning and AD follow a recent review of Channel 4 services, with the channels involved including Channel 4 itself, More 4, E4 and Film 4.The current levels of captioning mandated on these channels by the UK communications regulator Ofcom  are 90%, 35%, 60% and 35% respectively. The captions will also be available on Channel 4’s 4oD service and other online content.

Taxonomy: 
Television

Top of page

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Television