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FCC Website Requirement: FCC Applications Link/Page
47 CFR 73.3580(c) Three Website Requirements ______________________________________________________________________________________ Examples of compliant stations: Continue reading
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Engineering Perspective: Closed Captioning Broadcast Engineering Videos
(Reprinted from the SBE’s newsletter, The Signal ) By Vicki Kipp, CPBE, ATSC3, CBNT Have you ever watched a technical video that is timely, but difficult or impossible to understand? There are plenty of reasons to use closed captioning and not just for the hard-of-hearing community. Perhaps the audio is low or dialog is drowned… Continue reading
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Comments on FCC Docket No. 16-142_ Authorizing Permissive Use of the Next Generation Broadcast Television Standard
by Vicki W. Kipp May 7, 2023 Comments on FCC Docket No. 16-142: Authorizing Permissive Use of the “Next Generation” Broadcast Television Standard by Vicki W. Kipp 10/01/2022 The FCC requested comments on their Third Report and Order Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Authorizing Permissive Use of the “Next Generation” Broadcast Television Standard GN Docket No.… Continue reading
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How to Replace a Transmission Line Watchband Spring
At a Work Bench Materials: rubber gloves, 3/8-inch wrench for transmission line, 5/32-inch Allen wrench, replacement watch band springs, spare replacement teflon insulators, replacement rubbing shoes. Access the bullet. Loosen the flange bolts with 3/8-inch wrench. Separating the two pieces of transmission line. This will allow access to a bolt in the base of the… Continue reading
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SCC CEA-608 Closed Caption File Codes
SCC files are written in hexadecimal numbers. SCC stands for Scenarist Closed Captions. SCC closed caption files are easily converted to MCC CEA-608/708 closed caption files. For troubleshooting, convert SCC file to txt file and start converting the four-digit codes to commands, letters, and numbers. Continue reading
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Why AI Captions Need Better Formatting
A popular AI broadcast caption service– let’s call it Flexi– ignores a key rule of captioning. It’s captioning canon to start a new caption line after a sentence ends. AI captions don’t bother with a new caption line. After a sentence ends, AI captions start a new sentence on the same line. A human stenographer… Continue reading
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Telestream CaptionMaker- How to Offset or Ripple Timecode
I use Telestream CaptionMaker’s (for Windows) “Ripple Timecode” feature when I combine individual segments into a program or dividing a program into individual segments. _________________________________________________________________ Select the caption line where you want the timecode ripple to start. Select the new starting timecode. OPEN RIPPLE TIMECODE GUI There is a keyboard shortcut to open the Ripple… Continue reading
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NCRA Realtime Broadcast Captioning Style and Format Guides for U.S.
Live captions start a new line after sentence-ending punctuation. Continue reading
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Timing Considerations for Hmong Closed Captions
DCMP conventions for Broadcast closed captions Character SetTraditional video closed captions only support the basic and extended ASCII character sets. CTA 608 closed captions can only support standard ASCII letters, numbers, and punctuation (, . ? / : ; ” ‘ [ ] ( ) ! @ # $ % & ( ) <… Continue reading
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ATSC 3.0 PBS Stations
Call Network City State Lighthouse Sign On WKAR WKAR TV East Lansing MI WKAR Experimental 2020 WUNC PBS North Carolina Raleigh NC WNGT-CD Retro TV 2020 KOPB Oregon Public Broadcasting Portland OR KPDX MyNet 2020 KAET Arizona PBS Phoenix AZ KHPH-LD UniMás 2021 WHUT Howard University Washington, DC DC WHUT PBS 2021 WUCF WUCF TV… Continue reading
About Me
Hello there! My name is Vicki Kipp, and I am a closed caption maker. Making closed captions is time consuming and complicated, so this blog is a collection of all of the knowledge and experiences I have gained. I hope my collection of tips and tricks might help you with your closed caption work the way it has helped me!
Recent Posts
- FCC Website Requirement: FCC Applications Link/Page
- Engineering Perspective: Closed Captioning Broadcast Engineering Videos
- Comments on FCC Docket No. 16-142_ Authorizing Permissive Use of the Next Generation Broadcast Television Standard
- How to Replace a Transmission Line Watchband Spring
- Netflix Subtitle Style Guide 2024