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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: STEMO on 29 January 2020, 15:28:25
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The BBC has suspended the closure of its Red Button text service after protests, a day before it was due to have started being phased out.
The news comes days after a petition, organised by the National Federation of the Blind of the UK (NFBUK), was handed in to the BBC and Downing Street.
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They have listened to the opinions of some of those who use the service and will reconsider the options ... I see little wrong with that.
Many partially sighted folks use the text based news on a large screen TV as the only way they can "read" items as newsprint/computer monitors are simply too small to enlarge the text sufficiently.
Many hearing impaired folks also "read" the news this way as they can't "listen" to the radio/TV
Others use it as it is convenient and they like it.
Seeemples ... :)
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Yes.....but if you can hear, you could just listen to the news. It's rolling 24 hours, so you can't exactly miss it. Badly written article imo.
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If you are forced to "listen" to 24 hour rolling news you just hear the same thing a thousand times.
I visit an elderly lady who is totally housebound (carers visit to get her up/feed her/put her to bed) she has arthritus badly, is partially sighted, and wears (when the carers remember to fit them) hearing aids.
She is quite "happy" ( ? ) sitting in her lounge with a large button remote able to "channel hop" or use the "red button" to get information about the world outside, or to listen to a presetup audio system that also uses a large button remote. This gives her choice, and freedom, to listen to, or watch, what she wants ... not what she's told to.
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When the BBC was in its infancy, it was classed as a "service". It,s certainly trying to move away from that now. Tony Hall is getting out the right time. For him,anyway. ::)