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Alert Levels 2 and 3 - Able continues to provide Captions and AD

The Able team is continuing to work to provide Captions and Audio Description, and the altered alert levels will not affect the schedules during this time.

16 Feb 2021

News: Captions on TVNZ 1's Breakfast

Captions will be available on TVNZ 1’s Breakfast programme from Monday 5 October 2020 following a major funding boost for Able, New Zealand’s provider of captioning and audio description for free-to-air television.

1 Oct 2020

News: Captions on TVNZ OnDemand

Captioned shows are now available all in one place on the TVNZ OnDemand website and app.

14 Jul 2020

News: The Voice Australia LIVE finale

18 Jul 2014

Able is excited to be offering captions for the live grand final of The Voice Australia on TV2 at 9.30pm on Monday 21st July 2014.
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Media release: captions for political programmes

11 Jul 2014

Captioning to give hard of hearing community greater access to political debate.
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News: 2014 FIFA World Cup captions

10 Jul 2014

Able is very excited to be offering captions for the live FIFA World Cup final on Monday 14th July, capping off a month of captioning the FIFA World Cup Highlights show, which has aired every day a football match has been played during the tournament.
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