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.
The captioning is provided by AI Media and the service is a preview of a soon to be launched regular captioning service on Sky News.
Sky News is available through FOXTEL and AUSTAR.
This trial will provide a closed audio description service, and new Freeview integrated sets and Freeview digital set-top boxes will incorporate the ability to decode and play the audio description (which will be on a second audio channel). Some older Freeview sets may be able to be upgraded.
According to NZ On Air, the initial service is expected to be on TV One and consist of imported description. Description of local programming has been identified as a future priority.
BBC Radio 4 program In Touch: News for Blind People has an interview with Ed Vaizey, the UK Communications Minister. In it he talks about the voluntary approach to audio description quotas on television.
