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Posted by Chip Gallo on 12/22/05 21:09
Steve Guidry wrote:
> I produce a church worship program that airs weekly on the local NBC
> affiliate.
>
> They're trying to make us do closed captioning for all programs beginning
> January 1. This is particularly onerous given the fact that they mentioned
> it for the first time THIS WEEK. They're playing hardball on this one,
> which is surprising given the fact that this church has been on with them
> since 1974.
>
> After checking with the other stations in town, I'm finding that they are
> allowing their church programs to air without captioning under the "no
> repeat value" exception. (There's also an "under $3million revenue
> exception" which would seem to apply.)
>
> Has anyone else faced this ? What was the resolution ?
>
>
> --
> Steve Guidry
> Video Works, Inc.
> Live events for TV and Video
> www.videoworksinc.com
> 800.844.4404
>
>
It's not NBC, it's the FCC. See http://ftp.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/cctimeline.html
Just wondering, why don't you want to caption the material? If you do it
with somebody like Automaticsync (http://www.automaticsync.com/), it
costs around $200/hour to transcribe and caption. Less if you already
have a transcript. And you can upload the edited video to their web site
and get the caption file mailed back to you. Not sure of the work flow
for line 21; we have been doing Windows media files (WMV).
Chip Gallo
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