Closed Captioning Blog

Closed captioning is a technology that provides visual text to describe dialogue, background noise, and sound effects to over 93-million Americans. As of July 1993, all television sets with screens 13 inches or larger sold in the United States must have built-in decoder circuitry that allows viewers to display closed captions on their TV sets. In 1996, Congress passed a law requiring video program distributors cable operators, broadcasters, and satellite distributors to caption their own programs. Under the regulations adopted by the FCC, as of January 1, 2006, broadcasters must caption 100% of programming with few exceptions!