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Three new audio described and closed captioned cinema locations

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It’s out with the old and in with the new at three Event/Greater Union/Birch Carroll & Coyle cinema locations with the introduction of closed captions and audio description this week.

As previously reported the cinemas at Brisbane’s Myer Centre, Glendale in NSW’s Hunter region and Casuarina in Darwin will commence closed captions and audio description on two screens each by the end of 2011. To start this process, these cinemas will begin their accessible programs on one screen each from 20 October. Their final accessible screen will commence by the end of the year.


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Perth gets a new accessible cinema

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Event Cinemas has notified Media Access Australia that its Innaloo Megaplex in suburban Perth will commence closed captioned and audio described sessions this month.

Commencing from 20 October, Innaloo Megaplex will provide captions and audio description on a range of movies seven days per week, many times per day on one of its screens.


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TV station found in breach of license due to caption failure

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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that Nine Network affiliate NBN failed to show the TV Week Logie Awards with captions when it was broadcast on 1 May 2011.  This is a breach of NBN’s license which requires captioning of all programs shown between 6pm and 10.30pm.

NBN said that its operations staff failed to identify that there was a system error in the retransmission of caption feeds from the Nine Network in Sydney.  NBN has agreed to implement a visual alarm in the direct eye line of the caption presentation coordinator if a similar occurrence happens in future.  This in addition to previously agreed audits and improvement as a result of past captioning breaches by the station.

 


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Cinema access expands nationally: seven more locations announced

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Under the Federal Government’s Cinema Access Implementation Plan the major cinema chains of Hoyts, Village, Event/Greater Union/Birch Carroll & Coyle and Reading will commence accessible screenings at an extra seven locations by the end of the year.

All the new locations will commence closed captions with systems such as CaptiView and audio description. On top of these seven locations, ten existing locations will have their accessibility increased.


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