The dissertation (available only in Polish) titled Access to Sign Language Information in Television Programmes of European Public Broadcasters was prepared by my humble self, Sławomir Stępski, under the supervision of Małgorzata Fedorowicz-Kruszewska, Associate Professor at Institute of Information and Communication Research of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
The dissertation contains data from May 2022 and encompassed 51 sign language user communities in 45 countries, served by 50 public broadcasters.
Data was gathered from TV schedules, VOD services and TV station monitoring.
The main method used within the dissertation was content analysis.
The unit of analysis was a single television programme, or rather a normalised description of a single television programme.
All sign language TV programme descriptions were described according to a coding scheme that included: weekly duration, day(s) of broadcast, time slot, target age group, disability aspect, genre, sign language source, screen layout, interpreter size.
The unit of observation was a single offer, that is a set of all television programmes broadcast for a single sign language user community.
| Country number | Country name | Community number | Community name | Broadcaster number | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albania | 1 | Albanian SL | 1 | RTSH |
| 2 | Andorra | 2 | SL in Andorra | 2 | RTVA |
| 3 | Austria | 3 | Austrian SL | 3 | ORF |
| 4 | Belarus | 4 | Belarusian SL | 4 | BT |
| 5 | Belgium | 5 | Flemish SL | 5 | VRT |
| 5 | Belgium | 6 | French-Belgian SL | 6 | RTBF |
| 5 | Belgium | 7 | German SL | 7 | BRF |
| 6 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8 | SL in Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8 | BHRT |
| 7 | Bulgaria | 9 | Bulgarian SL | 9 | BNT |
| 8 | Croatia | 10 | Croatian SL | 10 | HRT |
| 9 | Cyprus | 11 | Cyprus SL | 11 | CYBC |
| 10 | Czechia | 12 | Czech SL | 12 | CT |
| 11 | Denmark | 13 | Danish SL | 13 | DR |
| 11 | Denmark | 13 | Danish SL | 14 | TV2 |
| 12 | Estonia | 14 | Estonian SL | 15 | ERR |
| 13 | Finland | 15 | Finnish SL | 16 | YLE |
| 13 | Finland | 16 | Finland-Swedish SL | 16 | YLE |
| 14 | France | 17 | French SL | 17 | france tv |
| 15 | Germany | 18 | German SL | 18 | ARD |
| 15 | Germany | 18 | German SL | 19 | ZDF |
| 16 | Greece | 19 | Greek SL | 20 | ERT |
| 17 | Hungary | 20 | Hungarian SL | 21 | MTVA |
| 18 | Iceland | 21 | Icelandic SL | 22 | RUV |
| 19 | Ireland | 22 | Irish SL | 23 | RTE |
| 20 | Italy | 23 | Italian SL | 24 | RAI |
| 21 | Kosovo | 24 | Kosovar SL | 25 | RTK |
| 22 | Latvia | 25 | Latvian SL | 26 | LSM |
| 23 | Lichtenstein | 26 | SL in Lichtenstein | none | |
| 24 | Lithuania | 27 | Lithuanian SL | 27 | LRT |
| 25 | Luxembourg | 28 | German SL | none | |
| 26 | Macedonia | 29 | Macedonian SL | 28 | MRT |
| 27 | Malta | 30 | Maltese SL | 29 | PBS |
| 28 | Moldova | 31 | SL in Moldova | 30 | TRM |
| 29 | Monaco | 32 | SL in Monaco | none | |
| 30 | Montenegro | 33 | SL in Montenegro | 31 | RTCG |
| 31 | The Netherlands | 34 | Dutch SL | 32 | NOS |
| 32 | Norway | 35 | Norwegian SL | 33 | NRK |
| 33 | Poland | 36 | Polish SL | 34 | TVP |
| 34 | Portugal | 37 | Portuguese SL | 35 | RTP |
| 35 | Romania | 38 | Romanian SL | 36 | TVR |
| 36 | Russia | 39 | Russian SL | 37 | VGTRK |
| 36 | Russia | 39 | Russian SL | 38 | OTR |
| 37 | San Marino | 40 | Italian SL | 39 | Rtv |
| 38 | Serbia | 41 | Serbian SL | 40 | RTS |
| 39 | Slovakia | 42 | Slovak SL | 41 | RTVS |
| 40 | Slovenia | 43 | Slovene SL | 42 | RTVSLO |
| 41 | Spain | 44 | Spanish SL | 44 | RTVE |
| 41 | Spain | 45 | Catalan SL | 43 | CCMA |
| 42 | Sweden | 46 | Swedish SL | 45 | SVT |
| 43 | Switzerland | 47 | French SL | 46 | RTS |
| 43 | Switzerland | 48 | Italian SL | 47 | RSI |
| 43 | Switzerland | 49 | Swiss-German SL | 48 | SRF |
| 44 | Ukraine | 50 | Ukrainian SL | 49 | UA:PBC |
| 45 | United Kingdom | 51 | British SL | 50 | BBC |