20-03-2023, 09:21 PM
(20-03-2023, 07:31 PM)VMPhil Wrote: It's a part of the Ofcom guidelines.
"1.22 Publicity: the word ‘Subtitles’ should be displayed legibly on the screen at the start of the programme."
Source: www.ofcom.org.uk
It was all triggered by a technical need that TC9 doing CBBC was routed
via an unstaffed network control room …the schedule was in TC9 ..
But Otis the aardvark could hold up a piece of cardboard with 888/subtitles on it.
So I persuaded the representatives of the d/Deaf communities and others interested
That it was even better that the programme presenter (!) was mentioning
Subtitles and that it would alway be in a larger font than the top right 888 …
And with digital tv we wanted to say “Subtitles”
Hence the legibility clause in the ITC /OFCOM Guidelines…
100% quota can never be achieved but 99.98% is…