Closed Captioning solution for a church…..

[Drew Tyler]

If you find you are not exempt, Then the less expensive simple solution we found is a small shop in Maryland. Walter of CCMaker.com was awesome to work with and spent ample time with me to help us get up and running, For under $3,000. His program is simple to use and works quickly once the content is transcribed.
We found an enoder for $800 the PCE 845 from Link. Anyway works like a charm, and it’s nice to talk to the actual creator of the product rather than a sales team or hireling. He can also do the full caption work for $200 that’s less than anywhere I found.
Walter can be reached at 1-800-527-0551 or wgallant@CCmaker.com

Good Luck
Drew from Salt Lake.

As for the exemptions, we were told the “3 million dollar” referred to the station airing(providing) the program, not neccesarily the ‘provider’ of the content. We found we were exempt in two of our smaller markets, but still needed to caption for SLC.

[Alan Hunter]

Drew,

I’m glad to hear that you found a solution. We too have purchased a newsroom-based sfotware that allows us to to close captions in conjuction with the Link 854d. All told, this system set us back $4,100.00 (US). In addition, we get a more accurate picture on back timing our programs. Now I just have to get use to running a prompter! Wow…where has my career gone?