Sky News - Signing for the deaf?
21-01-2006, 14:12
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Sky News - Signing for the deaf?
Hello,
I've just put Sky News on - there screen is "split" with some woman doing signing for the deaf viewers! Is there a way to get back to normal Sky News or is this a new feature fron Sky News? 
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21-01-2006, 14:20
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Re: Sky News - Signing for the deaf?
Dunno if you can as it might be a live feed for the bulletin but there is more info here
http://www1.sky.com/accessibility/signlanguage.htm
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21-01-2006, 14:24
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Re: Sky News - Signing for the deaf?
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Originally Posted by lsainsbury
Hello,
I've just put Sky News on - there screen is "split" with some woman doing signing for the deaf viewers! Is there a way to get back to normal Sky News or is this a new feature fron Sky News? |
You can't turn it off, it's inserted at broadcast. Ofcom require channels with over 0.05% audience share to have a certain % of hours signing each day.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/cond...p-o=2,100000,0
Last edited by ogryn; 21-01-2006 at 14:27.
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21-01-2006, 14:32
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Re: Sky News - Signing for the deaf?
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Originally Posted by ogryn
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Fair enough! I supposed even the deaf would want to know about a beached Whale on the Thames.....
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22-01-2006, 09:54
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Re: Sky News - Signing for the deaf?
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Originally Posted by lsainsbury
Fair enough! I supposed even the deaf would want to know about a beached Whale on the Thames.....
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Why wouldn't deaf people want to know the news? They have the same interests as hearing people and are entitled to the same level of service under the DDA.
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27-01-2006, 11:44
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Re: Sky News - Signing for the deaf?
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to be honest, it is annoying. but having deef people in the family.. i can see for its reasons.. as its live, they can't really do subtitles =-/. lol
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27-01-2006, 12:47
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Re: Sky News - Signing for the deaf?
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Originally Posted by Martyn
to be honest, it is annoying. but having deef people in the family.. i can see for its reasons.. as its live, they can't really do subtitles =-/. lol
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would agree but subtitles used to okay now we have someone taking up a third of the screen
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