More and More Programmes with Subtitles

More than 3,600 programmes in ZDF’s schedule, representing around 126,000 minutes of broadcasting, were subtitled via teletext last year.

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This represents an increase of 5,000 broadcast minutes compared with 2006. ZDF is working to expand this service for people with hearing impairments even further, ZDF Director-General Markus Schächter told the ZDF Television Council in Mainz.