Closed Captioning is Now required by ALL TV Statioons

[Ernie Santella]

I’ve been searching out all CC resources and came across this. Anybody know anything about it?

https://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/magpie1.html

Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Bill Sergio]

Hi,

That software is ONLY to create titles, NOT Closed Captioning!

I can write a program to add titles to any video in about 5 minutes!

I am talking about CLOSED CAPTIONING which are titles that do NOT appear on the screen.

Closed Captions ONLY appear if you turn on a reader to display them.

The Infomercial King

[Bill Sergio]

It was a joke! SONY products are very expensive so… Gret it?

The Infomercial King

[Ernie Santella]

I was just speaking with another editor who told me the CC mandate only applies to TV markets 25 & higher. Is this true?

Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Bill Sergio]

I don’t think so. My attorney said it applies to all markets and we air in all top 25 markets… so if we have to do it for one station in one market it is done for all of them since it doesn’t cost any extra–the only cost is the first master.

The Infomercial King

[Victor Tsikouris]

a Quick Question, after looking at the posts the past few days, I set up my home tv’s cc during primetime and non primetime- about 80 percent of the local commercials did not have cc, and about a third to half of the nationals did not have cc, (all car and medical commercials had cc) some commercials may have had a flight schedule months ago, most seemed recently made, earlier someone wrote about the fcc regulations- you said the orders came from the networks, so that makes the fcc excemptions moot. You obviously do infomercials, did the networks say commercials under two minutes along with infomercials needed cc: pardon the ignorance I just wanted to be sure i was on the track with this.
thanks