Australian policy and legislation

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).

Send a postcard before 31 October to support audio description on TV

no
Show on home page

The national campaign to keep audio description on Australian TV is building momentum. Two weeks remain to get involved in the campaign that has seen thousands of postcards sent to Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy and ABC Managing Director Mark Scott to appeal for a continuing audio description (AD) service on TV.

A joint initiative of Blind Citizens Australia, Vision Australia and Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, ‘It’s As Easy As ABC’ is encouraging people to send postcards to support the audio description service currently being trialled on the ABC until Sunday 4 November.

Campaigners say the trial is bringing access to over 600,000 Australians who are blind, vision impaired or can benefit from AD for the first time in Australian history.

Taxonomy: 
General
Australian policy and legislation
Television
Blind or vision impaired
Audio description
Research & policy
News
News alert taxonomy: 
Blind/vision impaired TV, DVD, Cinema & the Arts news
Research & Policy news

Top of page

Amendments to Broadcast Services Act a win for Deaf viewers

no
Show on home page

The Broadcast Services Act (BSA) has been amended to include increased quotas and quality guarantees for captioning on free-to-air and subscription television. These long-awaited amendments are being celebrated by Deaf and hearing impaired viewers who can now expect a greater variety of programs with captions meeting certain basic standards.

The amendments, which were passed by the Senate in June, introduce quotas for subscription TV providers such as FOXTEL. These will increase incrementally and will range from 5% on music channels to 75% for movie channels by 1 July 2014.

Captioning quotas for free-to-air television will also increase incrementally to one hundred per cent of programming between 6 am and midnight by 2014. News and current affairs programs must be captioned no matter what time of day they are broadcast.

Taxonomy: 
General
Australian policy and legislation
Television
Free-to-air TV
Multichannels
Research & policy
Subscription TV
News
News alert taxonomy: 
Deaf/hearing impaired TV, DVD, Cinema & the Arts news
Research & Policy news

Top of page

Unpublished


Top of page

Campaign for equal access to ABC TV kicks off today

no
Show on home page

Australian blindness and consumer organisations have today launched a national campaign to promote the importance of audio description currently being trialled on ABC TV, and appeal to Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy and ABC Managing Director Mark Scott to make the service permanent.

The campaign, It’s As Easy As ABC, will coordinate thousands of Australians to send postcards to Mark Scott and Stephen Conroy, requesting the service be made permanent beyond the AD trial’s scheduled end date of 4 November.

Taxonomy: 
General
Australian policy and legislation
Television
Blind or vision impaired
Audio description
Research & policy
News
News alert taxonomy: 
Blind/vision impaired TV, DVD, Cinema & the Arts news
Research & Policy news

Top of page

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Australian policy and legislation