Do you care about captions on TV?
Channel 9 over the month of November have dropped the amount of captions (hours per week) in the 6am to midnight slot to just 57.5% of programs (compared to 83.7 % around 4 months ago).
Channel 9 ceased to caption Mornings with Kerri-Anne (2 hours each weekday) Fresh Cooking with the Australian Women's Weekly (30 mins), Days of Our Lives (30 mins) and Antiques Roadshow (1 hour).
They also have two daytime shows that started recently that are not being captioned, The View (1 hour) and Ellen DeGeneres (1 hour).
This is a terrible situation and shows that they are holding the Deaf and hearing impaired communities in contempt.
We need you to show that you will not be treated this way.
If you care about captions please write to us and we will present your views in a petition to Channel 9 to ask them to caption the programs they used to caption, and add the two daytime shows The View and Ellen DeGeneres. Just reply to this email with your comments. Please pass on to as many people as possible. Email Deafness Forum of Australia at info@deafnessforum.org.au
If you don't care about captions, why should they?
Source: Do you care about captions? | Deafness Forum of Australia
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