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October 15, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Broadcasters ‘working together’ on emergency subtitles following Channel 4 outage, Sky says

Channel 4’s subtitles outage last year made broadcasters “stand up and think” and work together on support for deaf viewers, […]

June 20, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Channel 4 ‘breached licence conditions’ over subtitles outage, Ofcom investigation concludes

Channel 4 breached the conditions of its broadcast licence when it suffered a subtitles outage last year, an investigation by […]

March 4, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

Channel 4 has committed to providing 100% subtitles across all of its channels and its All 4 streaming service for […]

January 28, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on BREAKING: Channel 4 subtitles outage to be investigated by Ofcom

Channel 4 is to be investigated by the communications regulator Ofcom, after a subtitles outage in September meant they failed […]

January 27, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Ofcom approves Sign Language Interactions as 999 BSL service provider

Sign Language Interactions, who own the SignVideo service which helped set up BSL Health Access, has been approved as a […]

October 29, 2021 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Ofcom ‘enforcement’ against Channel 4 could happen ‘in 2022’ if subtitles quota not met, regulator says

Ofcom has revealed that it could take “enforcement activity” against Channel 4 “as soon as possible in 2022” if the […]

October 28, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Deaf News: Ofcom delays plans for 999 BSL video relay service

Proposals for a video relay service for British Sign Language signers to contact emergency services have been delayed, it has […]

November 11, 2014 by Editor

Ofcom has published its second report on the quality of live subtitles in UK TV programmes. The report shows that broadcasters […]

October 6, 2014 by Editor

Comments Off on Deaf News: ‘Next generation’ text relay service goes live

Ofcom have announced that deaf people and people with speech impairments should now be able to hold faster, more fluent […]

September 19, 2014 by Editor

On Wednesday, we posted a See Hear interview with Ofcom’s Peter Bourton about the new consultation for sign language programmes […]