former director of programmes at bskyb. david, we re going to talk about channel 4 and possible privatisation a moment. but you held those senior roles within uk broadcasting. i wonder if, you feel, looking back, disability representation was given the attention it warranted? it was well behind other minority diversities. the most successful lobby was from the deaf broadcasting council, getting subtitles and audio description. it took a while for the broadcasters and the regulators to get there, but it is now a requirement for broadcasters to have virtually all their programming subtitled, and 10% of it audio description. so, with the next wave of diversity challenge was from ethnic minority
heard that message from you? very, very good. very positive. i mean, the commitments from the bbc and netflix to making disabled shows was huge. channel 4 made a similar commitment. sky is building on making a commitment now. we haven t heard from channel 5 but hopefully we will. and with that, hopefully change will happen because people will become empowered and people will become used to seeing disabled people on screen. we will leave it there for the moment. thank you very much indeed and listening to all of that is david edelstein, former channel five ceo. from a director of programmes at bskyb. david, we re going to talk about channel 4 and possible privatisation a moment. but you held those senior roles within uk broadcasting. i wonder if, you feel, looking back, disability representation was given
within the industry when they heard that message from you? very, very good. very positive. the very, very good. very positive. the commitments from the bbc and netflix to make in disabled shows and netflix to make in disabled shows was huge. channel 4 made a similar shows was huge. channel 4 made a similar commitment. sky is building a similar commitment. sky is building and making a commitment have internal five but hopefully we will. and with that. but hopefully we will. and with that, hopefully change will happen because people will become empowered and people will be become empowered and people will be used to seeing people on screen make disabled people on screen make disabled people on on screen make disabled people on screen. we on screen make disabled people on screen. on screen make disabled people on screen. we will leave it there for people on screen. we will leave it there for the people on screen. we will leave it there for the moment. - peop
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