Atresmedia Group works to provide quality accessibility services, covering a broad range of news and on a wide array of formats, while maintaining accessible broadcasts 24 hours a day. In order to achieve its objectives and offer outstanding content, Atresmedia ensures exhaustive control and monitoring over its internal broadcast control system. Atresmedia's broadcasting department reviews all signed (sign language), audio-described and subtitled content submitted by the service providers in three stages: prior to broadcasting, during broadcasting and after broadcasting.

This process entails viewing subtitles and closed captioning, audio descriptions and sign language windows provided by content providers and directly monitoring the broadcasts, thus allowing Atresmedia to respond rapidly and effectively to any unforeseen technical or programme-related event, with only a minimal impact, or no impact at all, on the audience.

To monitor compliance with the requirements of the General Law on Audiovisual Media and UNE standards, Atresmedia also draws up weekly, monthly and annual monitoring reports based on the broadcasting register and the external controls of the service provider. The Group likewise responds to the monthly requirements of the CNMC, Spain's markets and competition commission, regarding compliance with the General Law on Audiovisual Media.

The main content accessibility actions carried out in 2024 were as follows:

  • Audio-description, Spanish signing, subtitling and closed captioning of television content going beyond the minimum requirements set out in the General Law on Audiovisual Media. In 2024, Atresmedia subtitled 93.9% of television content, audio-described a total of 3,263 hours and added sign language to a total of 2,820 hours of programming.
  • Subtitling and closed captioning of all current affairs programmes. In 2024, Atresmedia subtitled the entire roster of its current affairs programmes.
  • Expansion of the accessibility service for institutional and medicinerelated advertising campaigns and brand support, including subtitling and closed captioning, signing and audio- description. Atresmedia also collaborates with advertisers. In 2024, a total of 909 hours of subtitled commercial content, 259 hours of signed content and 163 hours of audio-described content were broadcast.
  • Use of artificial intelligence (AI) to make content more accessible: in 2023, the Atresmedia Group embarked on a project whereby it made internal resources available to its accessibility providers to develop new accessible broadcasting tools based on AI. In 2024, the Group continued this collaboration to further research and develop tools applied to signing and audio description.
  • Accessible QR on Antena 3 news programmes for the visually impaired: in 2024, accessible QR codes were displayed on screen for Antena 3 news programmes. These codes are easy to scan and take the user directly to the news website so that they can access the content in a simple way and use their own translation or audio-description tools.
  • Enhanced accessibility in atresplayer: in 2024, Atresmedia continued to improve the accessibility of its atresplayer platform, achieving a total of 28,269 hours of subtitled content.

In addition, the Group sets goals related to content accessibility:

Targets related to the Group's accessibility objectives

As part of its commitment to accessibility, Atresmedia regularly measures data on sign language for the deaf, subtitling, closed captioning and audio description of the content it broadcasts. Ever since the entry into force in 2023 of the accessibility requirements of the General Audiovisual Media Law, the Group has gone beyond the minimum requirements regarding subtitling and closed captioning, audio description and sign language. Further details of the Group's commitments and monitoring in relation to content accessibility are provided below.

Target 1. Subtitle and close caption at least 92% of the content broadcast on television. This target exceeds the 80% required under the General Audiovisual Media Law. The Atresmedia Group monitors this indicator on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis, which also happens to form part of the variable remuneration plan for the Group's executive directors. With this target, the group aims to ensure that its content is inclusive and accessible to people with hearing difficulties. Atresmedia comfortably meets this goal each and every year and has exceeded 90% of subtitled television content since 2018.

Number of hours of subtitled content in 2024
Number of hours of subtitled content in 2024 | Atresmedia

Target 2. Exceed the minimum requirements of the General Audiovisual Media Law regarding signed and audio-described content (minimum of five hours per week of signed and audio-described content according to the law). Atresmedia monitors this target on an annual basis.

Accessibility of content on television 2024
Accessibility of content on television 2024 | Atresmedia