Canwest owns the Global Television Network, which operates 11 television stations in Canada that reach 94% of the English speaking population. The disability advocates have filed an intervention with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which will now hold public hearings into the acquisition.
The Goodmans Smart Talk Box, recently released in the UK, is the world's first digital set-top box to feature talking menus and program guides.
The box, which was developed in conjunction with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), also provides audio description.
You can listen to a review of the Smart Talk on the 24 August edition of the Global Voice radio program Innovations. Just go to the Global Voice website, and click on 'listen' or 'download'.
FOX SPORTS 1HD/1, FOX SPORTS 2HD/2 and FOX SPORTS 3HD/3 will all be offering live captioning on both national sporting events and a number of their top magazine shows such as NRL on FOX and The Rugby Club.
FOX SPORTS uses Ai-Media for live captions.
It has also been announced that the captioning service will be extended to the Sky News Business Channel (but not date has been released).
Sky News uses Ai-Media to live caption its programs and provided live caption coverage of the Federal election last Saturday, 21 August.
