The Hits - Subtitles

I've noticed This Evening That The Music Channel The Hits Now Contains Subtitles On Some of their songs.

Is This New or Has this been round longer than i thought?

I'm paralysed with not caring very much.

What's the point of subtitling songs for the deaf? They can't hear the music? It'd be like flashing lines a poem up in little bits.

Although it will be important next time Amy Winehouse is on.

I've always thought that subtitles would be great on music channels for situations where you want the lyrics for whatever reason.

Given the music companies' outrage at websites printing lyrics to songs, I would have thought an additional license would be needed for such an endeavour?

Subtitles on music channels (The Hits, TMF, MTV Hits, etc) have been the norm for some time.

They also sign (BSL) some of their tracks overnight in a section called Signed By The Hits .

Some record labels won't allow their releases to be subtitled due to copyright reasons.

Red Bee Media provide the subtitling for MTV and GCap channels, whilst ITFC provide most of the rest.

Haven't we had two other threads on this subject in the past few months?

It's like being stuck in a time loop!

Er...I think I may have said that once already tonight!

yes you have



also yes, I think it was more to do with a woman signing

I Know They have On TMF But I Usually Have The Subtitles Turned On On My Freeview Box and Realsiled The Hits Only Just Have Them Yesterday!
They Haven't Had Subtitles Until Now! (I Think!)

Why do the signers look like my dad dancing at a wedding? Very embarrasing...

Actually, MTV themselves do the subtitles on the MTV-owned channels (there used to be an end caption that read subtitling@mtvne.com at the end of music videos, now it only appears at the end of non-music related programming.)

Whereas Red Bee do the subtitling on the EMAP channels (in the BBC style, oddly enough, as opposed to the Channel 4 style). Pre-2006, the subtitles on the EMAP channels had an unnecessary large amount of black space where there was no text.

I'm surprised they can get away with that under broadcast/disability laws.