Captioning Survey

The Canadian Radio-television Commission (CRTC) has called for comments on English language television closed-captioning.  The links below provide details of the CRTC notice and the broadcasters’ report.

CRTC Notice:  Call for comments on the English-language closed captioning quality standard related to the accuracy rate for live programming: http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-325.htm?_ga=1.130980557.395647383.1442328668

On 31 October 2014, the English Language Broadcasters Group submitted a Report on Efforts to Improve the Quality of Closed Captioning. The report outlined the group’s challenges in achieving the required accuracy rate for live programming.