btw, to answer your other point, this is hosted on feddit.uk but it isn't intended to be a UK-only community.
DAB Radio
Discussion of all things DAB/Digital Radio!
UK channel list website: https://www.terrestrialtv.uk/dab
UK programme discussion is probably better in !britishradio@feddit.uk
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Could change the headline of the community. The slug is already not UK specific
Good catch. I think originally I did it as a UK community, I've edited it now.
I guess the question is, does "audiovisual" mean TV, or does it also include just "audio"? (ie. does this only apply if there is a "visual" element?)
Art.3 has this definition:
(5)‘audiovisual media services’ means services as defined in point (a) of Article 1(1) of Directive 2010/13/EU;
which leads to:
- For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply: (a) ‘audiovisual media service’ means: (i) a service as defined by Articles 56 and 57 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which is under the editorial responsibility of a media service provider and the principal purpose of which is the provision of programmes, in order to inform, entertain or educate, to the general public by electronic communications networks within the meaning of point (a) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/21/EC. Such an audiovisual media service is either a television broadcast as defined in point (e) of this paragraph or an on-demand audiovisual media service as defined in point (g) of this paragraph;
(ii) audiovisual commercial communication;
(e) ‘television broadcasting’ or ‘television broadcast’ (i.e. a linear audiovisual media service) means an audiovisual media service provided by a media service provider for simultaneous viewing of programmes on the basis of a programme schedule;
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2010/13/oj/eng
So perhaps not.. though strictly speaking audiovisual ≠ ‘audiovisual media service’, so it’s left undefined. Perhaps one could argue that DAB has JPEG album art and therefore delivers both.
Note as well that the spirit of the accessibility law is to push suppliers to provide information and access in multiple different formats so that some impaired demographics are not unnecessarily excluded.