Closed Captioning
Updated 4:56 PM PST, Tue, Jul 21, 2009
More than 120 million Americans benefit from closed captioning, including 28 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people, 26 million elementary school children practicing reading skills, 30 million people learning English as a second language and 40 million Americans ages 16 and older learning to read.
In addition, a growing number of NBC viewers in restaurants, gyms, bars, airports and other public places utilize closed captioning to follow a program despite the loud atmosphere.
Gaining access to closed captioned programs is as easy as turning on your television. Today, caption decoders are a standard feature of television sets with screens 13" or larger.
As the number of closed caption viewers continues to increase, so does NBC 7/39's determination to provide quality news and entertainment to all of its viewers.
· There are approximately 300,000 known hearing impaired residents in San Diego County.
· NBC 7/39 Closed Captioning allows the audio portion of televised programs to be converted into written words that appear on the screen in the form of subtitles.
· Real time closed captioning captures live news updates and ad-libs, information vital to a news watcher.
First Published: Oct 12, 2008 7:29 AM PST
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