Timeline: 2022 Week 25

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• MON 20TH JUN (10.50AM): Channel 4 deemed to have breached licence over subtitle issues
• MON 20TH JUN (2PM): Another week on air for James Alec Hardy’s ITV idents
• MON 20TH JUN (8.15PM): BBC Northern Ireland introduces new pre/post-programme sting

Monday 20th May

10.50am Channel 4 deemed to have breached licence over subtitle issues

An Ofcom investigation has found Channel 4 breached the conditions of its broadcast licence following an extended outage of its subtitling, signing and audio description services.

Key findings of the report:

• Channel 4 fell short of its subtitles quota on Freesat for 2021, following an outage.
• Communication with audiences during the incident was severely lacking.
• Broadcasters must improve disaster recovery plans.

In response to Ofcom’s report, Channel 4 issued the following statement:

“Channel 4 is very disappointed with Ofcom’s decision and will review its findings carefully. We would like to apologise once again to our audiences for the disruption to our access services following the catastrophic incident last September and since then we have implemented a number of new systems and processes to avoid a serious incident in the future.”

EXTERNAL LINK: Ofcom finds Channel 4 breached licence conditions over subtitle problems.

2pm Another week on air for James Alec Hardy’s ITV idents

As has become the norm, the start of a new week of continuity announcements on ITV also heralds a change of ITV Creates idents.

This week, the work of James Alec Hardy gets another airing on the main ITV channel.

James’ idents were first aired for a week in February 2019.

8.15pm BBC Northern Ireland introduces new pre/post-programme sting

A new BBC Northern Ireland corporate sting – created as part of the Chameleon project – is now being used on air.

The sting appears immediately before and after locally produced shows.

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