Quick Facts

• The average half-hour program contains 4,531 words.
• We considered calling our e-caption service “green-caption.”  It not only saves you time, but it conserves tape stock, fuel, and packaging supplies.
• Our guarantee is the best in the business…and it makes our competition nervous.
• Around 36 million people in the United States are either deaf or hard of hearing.
• Our on-site staff makes it easy to offer same-day turnaround—for those times when delay is not an option.
• We’ve caught technical mistakes in hundreds of programs.  When we find one, we let the producer know right away so it can be fixed before broadcast.
• Captioning was first previewed to the public in 1971, at the First National Conference on Television for the Hearing Impaired in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Our staff knows more than just captioning – we are also producers, editors and techies.  We understand the whole picture and how quality and speed impacts your message.
• We like to have a good time.  (Practical jokes among our staff are never out of the question.)
• We’ve written custom software to increase our speed, accuracy and detail on every job.
• The Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990 required that every television with a screen larger than 13 inches have a caption decoder built into it beginning in 1993.
• Contrary to popular belief, our captioning suites do not have oxygen masks that drop from the ceiling.
• Federal and many state agencies are required to make their material accessible to the disabled community.  (This includes everything from training videos to webcasts.)
• Our services are an important part of your project, so our goal is excellence and accuracy each and every time.
• Nearly all TV programs in the United States (English and Spanish) require closed captioning.
• For the producer, captioning doesn’t have to be difficult.
• Our facility is strategically located minutes from FedEx and UPS main hubs.
• We caption thousands of programs each year.
• It’s true! Our company president once accidentally flooded his hotel room at the National Association of Broadcasters convention.