Broadcast captioning is the process of adding captions to television or radio broadcasts, ensuring that content is accessible to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as non-native speakers and those in noisy environments. Captions display the spoken dialogue, sound effects, and other relevant audio information in sync with the broadcast, allowing viewers to fully engage with the content.
For broadcasters, providing accurate captions is not only a best practice but often a legal requirement to ensure accessibility and comply with regulations. Professional broadcast captioning services ensure that captions meet the specific technical standards and formats required by the industry. This includes real-time captioning for live broadcasts and post-production captioning for pre-recorded content.
By including broadcast captions, you improve audience reach, enhance viewer engagement, and increase the accessibility of your content, helping to create an inclusive viewing experience for all audiences. Additionally, captions can boost SEO, as they provide searchable text that makes the content easier to find and more discoverable online.
By Ben Kalb
Quality captions don’t just get the words right, they express every sound and nuance that’s happening on screen. This belief is more than a commitment to showing integrity in our work—it’s a matter of upholding basic, necessary accuracy.
By Ben Kalb
Discount companies are using shortcuts and claim high accuracy at low costs, which sounds pretty good, right? But the FCC isn’t looking for “pretty good”—it’s mandating perfection.
By Bianca Johnson
Like a lot of you, I begin the New Year by making a few personal improvement resolutions.
This year I started thinking about some of the most common attitudes and concerns of the potential clients that call us for closed captioning services every day. What if they took the time to set some resolutions around the services provided by companies like CaptionLabs?
By Ben Kalb
CaptionLabs proudly introduces the addition of StationDrop to its already popular closed captioning services. StationDrop allows producers to deliver full-length broadcast programming to stations and networks digitally with no hassle, no tapes and no shipping.
