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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…
In a transcript dated Aug. 28 and posted on rushlimbaugh.com, radio personality Rush Limbaugh answers a caller who inquired about Limbaugh’s experience going deaf. Limbaugh…
On Aug. 5, the Department of Transportation ruled that captioning is required on televisions in all airports that receive federal financial assistance. This was in…
In a July 29 Education Week commentary piece, public radio reporter Monica Brady-Myerov wrote that reading same-language subtitles can boost students’ literacy. She cites studies…
By Jen Schuck There are many differences between a court reporter and a CART or broadcast captioner. However, one similarity is the electronic file that is…
In July, Sen. John A. DeFrancisco announced the passage of S5533-B by the state’s Senate and Assembly. The bill, which DeFrancisco introduced, would require state-funded…