Audio description on TV in the UK
The United Kingdom has the most developed and regulated market for audio description, which appears on both free-to-air and subscription TV.
Audio description quotas require a maximum of 10% of audio description on TV depending on the size of the channel, with some exemptions for live programming such as news and live sport. In 2008 the highest level channels reached the full 10% quota requirement for audio description, although a number of them exceeded this.
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