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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Closed Captioning?
Message-ID: <353@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 11:47:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: nicmad.353
Posted: Fri Sep 13 11:47:39 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 05:42:35 EDT
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <58300036@trsvax> gm@trsvax writes:
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>I tuned in tonight to watch the Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Redskins on ABC
>(live).  Before the show started the closed captioning logo came on, with an
>announcement that this was being closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
>Now since this was a live broadcast, I was wondering how they insert the
>text real-time like that. Or do they? I wonder if it is only for the taped
>interview-type segments.

ABC explained how they do live captioning for the ABC World News Tonight.
The tv program is sent to the National Captioning Institute, which then
creates the text using a modified court recorder.  This allows them to be
able to do it in realtime.

Hope this helps explain it.
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