On Dec. 8, Telecompaper.com reported that Brazil’s Ministry of Communications has established that, by 2017, all programming broadcast by free-to-air channels must include closed captioning…
Posts tagged as “Captioning”
If preparation is key to building great realtime, how does a captioner provide great captions without much information? By Megan Rogers Prepping for a captioning…
KPTV-KPDX Broadcasting Corp., Portland, Ore., reported on Nov. 18 that an ordinance unanimously passed by the city council requiring closed captioning to be turned on…
A guest blog posted on Nov. 19 by Broadcasting & Cable addresses the recent closed captioning requirements for broadcasters and cable operators issued by the…
On Oct. 27, Darlene Parker, RPR, the director of steno captioning and realtime relations at the National Captioning Institute, guided a few NCRA staff members…
On Nov. 10, the Federal Communications Commission hosted a roundtable on closed captioning of PEG programming. PEG stands for public, educational, and governmental television channels.…
The Orlando Sentinel posted an article on Nov. 1 about the volunteers who provide live captioning during Sunday services at the First Baptist Church of…
NCRA member Lois Boyle, RMR, Newport News, Va., was quoted in an article posted by the Daily Press on Nov. 8 about area theaters providing…
The United Kingdom’s first captioning awareness week is to be held Nov. 9-15, according to an article posted Nov. 11 on Arts Professional.com. According to the article,…
Deadline.com reported on Oct. 19 that Disney, Fox, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Universal, Sony, and Netflix are at the center of a potential class action lawsuit…
A press release posted on Oct. 19 by TVTechnology announced that EEG has launched the Falcon Web-Streaming Caption Encoder, a virtual caption encoder that offers…
Oct. 8 marked the five-year anniversary of the Communications and Video Accessibility Act being signed into law. The CVAA mandated that any program that was…
By Sue Terry Are there markets for us outside of the legal industry? You bet! You need look no further than YouTube to get started.…
The National Association of the Deaf, a non-profit civil rights organization of, by, and for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, and Amazon, a leading online streaming…
An article posted on Oct. 11 by Radio New Zealand News reported that the country’s Foundation for the Deaf is calling for more television programs…
An analysis piece posted Oct. 7 on the African edition of The Conversation, authored by Marcia Lyner-Cleophas of Stellenbosch University in Stellenbosch, South Africa, explores…
An editorial posted in the Hamilton County Herald, on Oct. 2, showcased the career and captioning skills of NCRA member Linda Hershey, RDR, CRR, CBC,…
High security, audio glitches, and sometimes difficult accents didn’t hinder the NCRA members who had the opportunity to caption the events held during Pope Francis’…
On Sept. 3, NCRA and several captioning vendors submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission on three issues connected to the implementation of the caption…