NZ On Air pays for all the captioning and (since 2011) audio description on New Zealand’s free-to-air channels. Funding for the 2014-2015 financial year was NZ$2.4 million ($AUD2.27 million), which paid for full captioning of TVNZ primetime programs, and 31 hours of audio description per week. The funding is paid to Able, a charitable trust which produces the captioning and audio description.
New Zealand’s Disability Issues Minister, Nicky Wagner, welcomed the decision, saying, “Promoting access to mainstream services in the community is a priority area in the Government’s Disability Action Plan.”
For more information, see the article about the funding increase on the New Zealand Government’s Beehive website.
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