Friday, August 31, 2007
See Hear, BBC Complaint and Refuse to pay TV Licence 100%
See Hear, BBC Complaints, and Refuse to pay for TV
Deaf people was shocked from BBC See Hear programme that it is reduced to 30 mins programme instead of 50 minutes, and move to Wednesday when no one is going to watch it.
Yes, more deaf people will record them, but they will lack interest in the programme. Deaf people have sent complaints that they want it to be same (Saturday), but they mostly prefer to move to Sunday (more than 1 million people did watched and it was the popular old times of See Hear).
I did an investigation myself in BBC Complaint website, and found summaries of complaints investigated by BBC, and all appeals to BBC mention NOTHING of See Hear programme. Deaf people did sent complaints and cannot believe our views were not there!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/review_reports.shtml
Waste of time? The question is:
Did deaf people not complain enough? Did deaf people say they did but they never did?
Did deaf people actually sent lots of complaints, but BBC decide to hide these complaints from the public? Or BBC sees it as unimportant issue?
WHY ARE WE PAYING TV LICENCE IN FULL? WHAT FOR?
I refuse to pay TV Licence 100%. Blind people get 50% discount for licence and the Government and BBC refuse for us to get reduction. That is not equality!
We should get better Signed programmes, and better subtitles both on TV and BBC online, and get 50% discount same as Blind people! You all Deaf must fight!
REFUSE TO PAY TV LICENCE 100%
Deaf-UK www.deaf-uk.com, www.deaf-uk.co.uk
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It's fair to say a lot of concern was sent to the BBC via the SEE HEAR message board. ALL responses for SEE HEAR seem to be channeled back there too, I've sent complaint to the people who decide the transmissions (NOT SEE HEAR itself), and got a message to refer back to Terry Riley every time..
Terry gave us the excuse, and explained the changes. SEE HEAR has changed transmission times twice to my knowledge before, lots of programs have this done, as at any channel they shuffle things about.
The licence fee as it stands covers subtitling and SEE HEAR itself which has to be paid for, as it does for signed access (Albeit after midnight it is there). Also, Radio is still used by those with hearing aids, so difficult to insist they should pay and deaf shouldn't.
Overall the British population would want the licence got rid of, whether this would HELP access... it could well diminish it. Half an hour isn't much agreed, but there were already concerns the content, or lack of it, was an increasing issue, after 25 years, it was really struggling to find cultural input, and was being bombarded with complaints it was too elite, ignoring other deaf and HoH people too.
It's make or break for SH, if it continues to suffer decline of viewers, a very serious issue you cannot counter if true....then even it's 'disabled ' access platform is not going to save it. It has run out of ideas that's the reality, we have been promised a 'cutting edge' approach from now on... Next month we will see !
Could the deaf Americans participate in the online petition to protest the BBC's decision to reduce the airtime of "SEE HEAR' television programming aimed at the deaf UK television viewers?
I, American, myself, would like to get involved with the online petition and snail mail campaign to persuade the BBC's programming board to reconsider their decision to shorten the programming length.
Deaf Americans would like to view "SEE HEAR" deaf television programming someday on the BBC America, a cable television programming.
I know that you, UK people have to pay the license fee to own the tv. So you, UK people could watch television shows.
In America, we either could watch tv shows over free airwaves thru the use of televison attenta (rabbit ears or on the roof) or subscribe (join) to the cable television service to watch more than 100 channels like $35 to $50 per month.
Many Deaf Americans enjoy the BBc programs from "Dr. Who" to the Avengers from the 60s. Ever "Benny Hill" shows.
Fists Up, Deaf British People!
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
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