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to top This document describes the projects that received funding in Fiscal Year 2004 by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education, under its competition 84.327L: Television Access. (Note: Additional television access grants are funded under the 2004 84.327C and the 2003 84.327J competitions.) This funding is authorized by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), our nation's special education law.
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| Project Director: Gazeley, Carolyn
LNS Captioning 9498 SW Barbur Blvd., Suite 310 Portland, OR 97219-5423 Voice: 503-299-6200; Fax: 503-299-6839 E-mail: cgazeley@LNScourtreporting.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will make live news and public affair programs accessible to individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, by captioning about 2,000 program hours per year in various target cities.
Methods: Target cities are Portland, Oregon ; Minneapolis, Minnesota ; Denver, Colorado ; and San Antonio, Texas . They all have significant populations of people with hearing loss and/or who speak a language other than English at home. By captioning news, information, and local government proceedings, and by building relationships with local consumers, the project can deliver the best quality captions and create awareness, support, and commitment to closed captioning in the community.
Products: The project will caption: KPTV-12 Portland, Oregon - 10 p.m. news; KDTV-12 Denver, Colorado - Denver City Council; KSTP-Minneapolis - 10 p.m. news; KSAT - San Antonio News and Local Sports; Oregon Public Broadcasting ArtBeat and Oregon Field Guide; and Oregon Legislature.
| Project Director: Toepper, Lorin
K. Madison Area Technical College 3550 Anderson St . Madison, WI 53704-2599 Voice: 608-243-4455; Fax: 608-246-6329 E-mail: ltoepper@matcmadison.edu | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will increase the quantity and quality of captioned television news and public information programs available in Wisconsin over the next three years.
Methods: Through a consumer advisory group, the project will identify the most valued local news and information programs relevant to deaf and hard-of-hearing communities in Wisconsin . By subsidizing captioning of local news and information programs and using local captioners where possible, the project will rapidly increase the number and captioning quality of captioned local news and information programs on air throughout the state. It will also rapidly increase the number of work-ready trained real-time broadcast captioners in Wisconsin through expansion of the Broadcast Captioning and Court Reporting program at Madison Area Technical College . At least 540 hours of live captioned broadcasts and 60 hours of captioned offline programming will be scheduled each year of the grant.
Products: This project will enhance the abilities of Wisconsin deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers to gain access to programming they value. Through its efforts, Wisconsin broadcasters will be able to "ramp up" to Federal Communications Commission mandates coming online in 2006, and broadcast captioning students will be able to obtain "real world" experiences, allowing them to move forward rapidly into their chosen professions from student status.
| Project Director: Spellman III, John
WGBH Educational Foundation 125 Western Ave. Boston, MA 02134 Voice: 617-300-4010; Fax: 617-300-1020 E-mail: jack_spellman@wgbh.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The Caption Center, a service of the Media Access Group at WGBH, will make news and public information television programs accessible to the nation's 28 million people who are deaf and hard of hearing. This project will reflect program choices of viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing and will utilize the highest-quality captioning standards and professional experience.
Methods: Each year of the project, 1,000 hours of freely available public and commercial television programming will be captioned. The project will: (a) continue equitable allocation of uninterrupted captioning coverage of news and public information programming on CBS and PBS, (b) continue to set quality and service standards for audiences and the captioning industry, (c) secure private-sector funding for at least 50% of the cost of captioning all programming, (e) play a leadership role in new technologies, (f) seek Consumer Advisory Group approval on all programs, and (g) promote the project and the captioned programs to viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing, as well as to other users of captioning such as the elderly, learners of English as a second language, and children and adults working to acquire literacy skills. The project will address the diverse interests and program choices of many different viewers through a wide selection of news programming, including business news, political programs, and the human interest and hard news provided by daily national news broadcasts. Specifically, the project will caption CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, 60 Minutes II, Face the Nation, Lehrer NewsHour, Nightly Business Report on PBS, Morning Business Report on PBS, Now with Bill Moyers , and 46 hours of news specials and emergency coverage.
Products: This project will continue accessible educational and informational television programming on behalf of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, and will further increase the awareness of captioning to the general public.
| Project Director: Finkelstein, Karen National Captioning Institute, Inc. 1900 Gallows Rd., Suite 3000 Vienna, VA 22182-3865 Voice: 703-917-7600; Fax: 703-917-9878 E-mail: kfinkelstein@ncicap.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The National Captioning Institute (NCI) will complete closed captioning of approximately 2,886 hours of WROC-TV's local news and public information television programming over the three years of this project. By captioning these programs, WROC-TV will expand the range of news and public affairs programming accessible to Rochester, New York 's deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.
Methods: The TV station will install two dedicated telephone lines to enable NCI's captioners to receive the audio of each program and feed the resulting caption data to WROC's smart encoder for transmission with the programs. The programs for captioning will include: (a) "Sunrise Live," airing Monday through Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m.; (b) "News 8 at Noon," airing Monday through Friday, 12:00 to 12:30 p.m.; (c) "News 8 at Five," airing Monday through Friday from 5:00 to 5:30 p.m.; and (d) "News 8 Tonight," airing Sunday through Saturday from 11:00 to 11:30 p.m.
Products: The programming mix selected for real-time captioning under this project reflects a variety of WROC-TV news and public information programs to address the diverse interests of the viewing audience for news coverage throughout the day.
| Project Director: Idoni, Linda WGBH Educational Foundation Media Access Group 125 Western Ave. Boston, MA 91502 Voice: 818-562-3344; Fax: 818-562-3388 E-mail: linda.idoni@wgbh.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The Media Access Group at WGBH will caption and describe children's television programming that is distributed nationally through the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and Nickelodeon networks.
Methods: The Media Access Group (MAG) service departments, Descriptive Video Service and The Caption Center, will describe 124 hours of programming and caption 58 hours in the first year of the project. MAG will continue captioning Nickelodeon's Rugrats , among others. This Emmy-award-winning show continues to be one of Nickelodeon's top-rated programs. MAG will also expand accessibility on PBS's Barney and Friends and Angelina Ballerina by both captioning and describing these series. Barney is designed for a preschool audience and assists in developing thinking and social skills, while Angelina Ballerina is targeted to three-to-seven year olds and teaches life lessons and positive values. An additional objective of this project is to continue to reach out to children who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind and visually impaired, as well as their teachers and parents, to gather feedback and evaluation, and through the project's consumer advisory group, to obtain approval and input on the program selection, educational value of the programming, and methods used for and quality of the captioning and description. Such feedback will be used to improve the captioning, description and outreach processes.
Products: This project will serve approximately 1.6 million children who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired and millions of adults who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired who share and enjoy television viewing with their children. The project will provide accessible educational media and will increase the awareness of these services by educators, parents, and the general public.
| Project Director: Pettinato, Richard
Media Captioning Services 2141 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 330 Carlsbad, CA 92009-1426 Voice: 760-431-2882; Fax: 760-431-8735 E-mail: mediacap3@earthlink.net | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will provide real-time captioning of over 1,000 hours of news programming on WTVT, Tampa, Florida, substantially increasing the real-time captioning of news by the stenographic method and developing the captioning resources in the region.
Methods: Through this project, the more than 1.6 million viewers on the West Coast of Florida will have high-quality captioning of WTVT's news programs three times daily. Captioning will be done using the real-time stenographic method. A consumer advisory board will provide feedback on consumer preferences and advice on refining and improving the captioning done by the project.
Products: The project will assure real-time closed-captioned access for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers of the local news, to enable them to be kept well informed about their community and the events that impact on the public health, welfare, and safety.
| Project Director: Nubbe, Beth S.
National Captioning Institute, Inc. 1900 Gallows Road, Suite 3000 Vienna, VA 22182-3865 Voice: 703-917-7600; Fax: 703-917-9878 E-mail: bnubbe@ncicap.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Through this project, the National Captioning Institute (NCI) will work with several children's television networks and companies to complete closed captioning and video description of over 490 hours of children's television programming over a three-year period. Studies have shown that adding closed captions and video descriptions can make children's programming educational for those students with disabilities or difficulties with language.
Methods: This project will work directly with five networks and producers to caption and describe children's educational programming over a three-year period. For each year of the project, approximately 160 hours of children's educational programs will be made accessible, for a total of 490 hours. The NCI will use an advisory board of people with hearing and visual disabilities to help select and approve the mix of children's television programming to be captioned and described.
Products: By providing captioning and description, the five networks and producers involved in this project will expand the range of programming accessible to children and young adults nationwide who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or have low vision, to give them an equal playing field by enabling them to benefit from access to programs that are both educational and popular with their peers.
| Project Director: Suppes, Kurt Caption Colorado, LLC 5690 DTC Boulevard, Suite 500W Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Voice: 720-489-5662; Fax: 720-489-5664 E-mail: kurts@captcolo.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Caption Colorado will provide real-time captioning to underserved, smaller Florida communities for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. The captioning will be provided for newscast information that has not been scripted and captioned beforehand, such as breaking news/live shots, sports, and weather, all important, yet not available to the deaf or hard- of-hearing communities.
Methods: Captioners working on the project will ensure that emergent information or breaking news will air within ten minutes following notification. The captioning application can be readily accomplished through Internet and multimedia presentation. In order to serve the greatest number of groups in the targeted area under this project, Caption Colorado will focus on creating a choice of news/media outlets for deaf or hard-of- hearing viewers in the area. One intended benefit is that each of the TV stations will begin to understand the need for captioning and will work to provide this service for all of its news programming.
Products: As part of its marketing program, the project will provide supplemental sales training and support to the television stations in the target area in order for them to have the greatest chance of access to underwrite additional real-time captioning. Overall, the real-time captioning that will be provided by this project will allow individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to access news, entertainment, and information, enabling them to be part of the cultural mainstream of U.S. society.
| Project Director: Stovall, Jim Narrative Television Network 5840 South Memorial Drive, Suite 312 Tulsa, OK 74145 -9082 Voice: 918-627-1000; Fax: 918-627-4101 E-mail: Narrative@aol.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The Narrative Television Network (NTN) Total Accessible TV project will enable NTN to work with its network partners and Captioning Coalition members to audio describe and caption more than 500 hours of new educational programming over the three-year project.
Methods: NTN has programming agreements with networks and distributors including PBS, GoodLife Television, VCI Entertainment, and SCOLA (Satellite Communications for Learning) to video describe, caption, and distribute educational, news, and informational programming for children and young adults. To support the needs of this project, NTN will hire a studio technical coordinator and a part-time tape librarian.
Products: The entire 500 hours of programming represent new additional accessible programming that NTN's network, programming, and distribution partners are not required to make accessible, but see the validity in serving the unique and growing audience of children and young adults who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, or visually impaired.
| Project Director: Shedd, Tammie A.
Visual Audio Captioning, Inc. 8930 Glenbrook Road Fairfax, VA 22031 Voice: 703-280-0040; Fax: 703-934-9139 E-mail: Tammie.shedd@visualaudiocaptioning.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Visual Audio Captioning (VAC) will provide real-time captions for local news and public information programs in the Indianapolis, Indiana, area.
Methods: The following news and public programs will have real-time captions: (a) "Daybreak" (Monday-Friday, 5-7 a.m. ); (b) "Daybreak Weekend" (Saturday and Sunday, 6-9 a.m. ); (c) "News-8 at 6" (Saturday and Sunday, 6- 7 p.m. ); (d) "News-8 at 11/Sportslocker" (Saturday and Sunday, 11 p.m. -12 midnight ). Real-time captioning will also be provided for 25 annual hours of specials, including nine hours of severe weather coverage, six hours of live breaking news, an one-hour NCAA basketball special, a three-hour mini-marathon, a two-hour Indy 500 Victory Banquet, a two-hour 500 Festival Parade, and two hours of Patty! specials. The project will train real-time captioners, which will increase the capacity of the television captioning industry to respond to demands for accurate real-time captioning. The project will involve individuals with disabilities in its planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Products: This project will improve the quality of life for the deaf and hard of hearing by providing daily hours of captioned local news and public information.
| Project Director: Shedd, Tammie A.
Visual Audio Captioning, Inc. 9803 Sharon Court Fairfax, VA 22032-1000 Voice: 703-278-9110; Fax: 703-934-9139 E-mail: tammie.shedd@visualaudiocaptioning.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will provide real-time captioning for newscasts on the television stations KATV in Arkansas and W* USA in Washington, D.C. Over 1,190 hours of news programs will be captioned each year.
Methods: The project will allow Visual Audio Captioning to increase real-time captioning of news programs through partnerships with the stations where the captioning will be done. A combination of client and consumer input, production management efforts, and technical support will provide the project with continuous feedback regarding its captioning.
Products: This project will improve the quality of life for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals in the viewing areas by providing increased hours of captioned local news and public information every day.
| Project Director: Carter, Lorraine
Caption Reporters Incorporated 5801 Allentown Rd., Suite 209 Camp Springs, MD 20746 Voice: 301-316-3131; Fax: 301-316-3139 E-mail: caption@earthlink.net | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will increase the capacity of the local television industry to respond to demands for accurate real-time captioning by providing captioning and other technical assistance to Channel 2 in the United States Virgin Islands.
Methods: The project will provide nine hours weekly of captioning for local news and public information programming. Programs include a local news, weather, and sports show aired each weekday morning, and an hourly talk show aired from 5-6 p.m. each Monday through Thursday.
Products: The project will increase exposure to news and local public information for the underserved deaf and hard-of-hearing community and increase sponsorship opportunities for future captioning.
| Project Director: Shedd, Tammie A.
Visual Audio Captioning, Inc. 9803 Sharon Ct. Fairfax, VA 22032-1000 Voice: 703-278-9110; Fax: 703-934-9139 E-mail: Tammie.Shedd@visualaudiocaptioning.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Visual Audio Captioning (VAC) will provide real-time captions for KATV's Newscasts, to provide access to local news programming for individuals in Arkansas who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Methods: KATV's newscasts that will receive real-time captions are the following: (a) 9-10 a.m. Monday-Friday; (b) 5-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and Sunday; (c) 6-6:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday; (d) 10-10:35 p.m. Monday-Sunday; (e) 7-9 a.m. Saturday; and (f) 26 episodes annually of "SportsWeek," airing 10:35-11:05 p.m. Sunday. These captions will reach 653,300 households in the state of Arkansas . VAC will train real-time captioners independently and cooperatively through the National Court Reporters Association. Captioners trained to specifically caption KATV programming will be available to the entire captioning industry.
Products: The project will improve the quality of life for the deaf and hard of hearing by providing daily hours of captioned local news and public information. The project will also increase the capacity of the television captioning industry to respond to demands for accurate real-time captioning.| Project Director: Okrand, Marc National Captioning Institute, Inc. 1900 Gallows Road, Suite 3000 Vienna, VA 22182-3865 Voice: 703-917-7600; Fax: 703-917-9878 E-mail: mokrand@ncicap.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will allow the National Captioning Institute (NCI) to collaborate with “CNN en Español" to provide over 670 hours of closed-captioned Spanish-language programming over a three-year period.
Methods: "CNN en Español" will provide five Spanish-language television programs for captioning: Panorama Mundial con Jorge Gestoso, which covers international news and analysis; El Mundo Informa, news and lifestyle reporting; Adelantos, science and technology reports; Consulta Médica, news and features on personal health and fitness; and Destinos, spotlighting global travel information. For each year of the project, over 223 hours of programming will be captioned, for a total of over 670 hours over the three years. Accurate and efficient captioning in closed- and real-time formats will be provided in Spanish. NCI has a consumer advisory group to determine the preference of consumers for particular programs and to identify important issues relating to captioning.
Products: NCI's proposal for captioning programming on "CNN en Español" will benefit people who are deaf or hard of hearing by increasing their access to the same programming that the vast majority of Americans rely on for knowledge and understanding of current events.
| Project Director: Hansel, Michael
CaptionMax, Inc. 530 North Third Street, #210 Minneapolis, MN 55401-1253 Voice: 612-341-3566; Fax: 612-341-2345 E-mail: mike@captionmax.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will provide accurate, high-quality real- time captioning to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers in southern California, to give them access to news programs and public information on television.
Methods: Using the stenographic method of captioning, CaptionMax will provide real-time captioning for over 2,260 hours of local news and public information programs on KGTV in San Diego . The project will gather a team of experienced real-time caption writers in the channel's viewing area. Both the caption writers and station personnel will be able to watch the actual broadcast and monitor the captions, resulting in a much higher quality product.
Products: The project is founded on the belief that it is every individual's right to access all programming, and it has built a solid reputation for high-quality real-time closed captioning on a national level. This project will allow it to bring vital live local news and public information to deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the San Diego area. To ensure that this population is made aware of the captioned news programs, both KGTV and CaptionMax will disseminate press releases to viewers in the area and to trade magazines and major local newspapers, as well as to national and state deaf organizations.| Project Director: Kaufman, Aaron
Media Captioning Services 2141 Palomar Airport Road Carlsbad, CA 92009-1426 Voice: 407-599-8314; Fax: 407-599-8318 E-mail: mediacap3@earthlink.net | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will provide real-time stenographic captioning of news programming on WFTV in Orlando, Florida .
Methods: The project will expand the captioning of local news programming to 650 hours per year, assuring that deaf or hard- of-hearing viewers in the area will have access to indepth news coverage, live breaking news, and specialized daily reports on business, finance, medicine, and science. The captioning will use the real-time stenographic method of captioning. A consumer advisory board will provide feedback on consumer preferences and offer advise regarding methods for improving and refining the captioning done by the project.
Products: This project will enable deaf or hard-of-hearing viewers to be kept well informed about their community and events that impact on the public health, welfare, and safety.
| Project Director: Schuster, Deborah
Closed Captioning Services, Inc. 6159 28th St., SE, Suite 350 Grand Rapids, MI 49546 Voice: 818-848-8826; Fax: 818-848-2023 E-mail: dschuster@ccscaption.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Closed Captioning Services, Inc. (CCS) will continue and expand significantly its real-time closed captioning services in the Grand Rapids, Michigan market.
Methods: CCS captions WOOD-TV's weekday 5-6:30 p.m. newscasts and its 11-11:30 p.m. weekday newscasts. CCS will continue captioning these newscasts and will add captioning to WOOD-TV's two morning newscasts at 5 and 6 a.m.—a total of 1,040 hours per year. This plan will double the amount of real-time local news available from this station. CCS has assembled a consumer advisory group comprised of prominent consumers, educators, and parents who have agreed to provide input on an ongoing basis.
Products: CCS will provide WOOD-TV caption viewers with real-time captioned morning news broadcasts for the first time. This project will ensure that hearing-impaired viewers will be further mainstreamed into society by having access to all the information that local news broadcasters provide in their communities.
| Project Director: Stovall, Jim Narrative Television Network 5840 South Memorial Dr., Suite 312 Tulsa, OK 74145 -9082 Voice: 918-627-1000; Fax: 918-627-4101 E-mail: Narrative@aol.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This Narrative Television Network (NTN) Accessible Educational TV project will provide accessible television and movie programming to Americans who are blind or deaf or have vision or hearing impairments.
Methods: NTN has programming agreements with such networks as Lifetime Television, TNT, TBS, and PBS. These networks represent not only networks required to meet the FCC's video description mandate, but also networks not under the mandate that are willing to expand their service to the community of Americans who have vision and hearing impairments. This project will allow NTN to hire an accessibility coordinator, a description coordinator, and a caption coordinator, as well as student interns to assure that children with vision and hearing loss have access to the highest quality educational programming available.
Products: NTN and its Captioning Coalition will provide video description and captioning for 400 hours of widely available, educational, news, and informational programming for children—including programs suitable for young adults.
| Project Director: Finkelstein, Karen
National Captioning Institute, Inc. 1900 Gallows Rd., Suite 3000 Vienna, VA 22182-3865 Voice: 703-917-7600; Fax: 703-917-9878 E-mail: kfinkelstein@ncicap.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The National Captioning Institute (NCI) in collaboration with WOKR-TV in Rochester, New York, will complete closed captioning of approximately 3,348 hours of local news and public information television programming over the three-year period of the project.
Methods: By adding one new program and additional hours to another already captioned, WOKR-TV will expand on a full range of news and public affairs programming accessible to Rochester 's deaf and hard-of-hearing population. WOKR-TV will continue to pay for the real-time captioning of its 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. newscast, Monday through Saturday. The programs for captioning with funds from this project include: (a) "NewsSource 13 This Morning," airing Monday through Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m.; (b) "NewsSource 13 at Noon," which airs Monday through Friday from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m.; (c) "NewsSource 13 at Five," airing Monday through Friday from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.; (d) "NewsSource 13 at Eleven," airing seven days per week from 11:00 to 11:35 p.m.; and (e) Many Voices, Many Visions, a multicultural public affairs program.
Products: The programming mix selected for real-time captioning under this project reflects a variety of WOKR-TV news and public information programs that address the diverse interests of the viewing audience for news coverage throughout the day.
| Project Director: Shedd, Tammie A.
Visual Audio Captioning, Inc. 9803 Sharon Ct. Fairfax, VA 22032-1000 Voice: 703-278-9110; Fax: 703-934-9139 E-mail: Tammie.Shedd@visualaudiocaptioning.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Visual Audio Captioning (VAC), with cooperation with WOIO-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, will provide real-time captions for WOIO's newscasts airing 6-7 a.m. Monday- Friday, 12-12:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 5-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 6-6:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 6:30-7 p.m. Sunday, and 11-11:35 p.m. Sunday-Saturday. These captions will reach 1,513,130 households in the greater Cleveland area.
Methods: VAC will train real-time captioners independently and cooperatively through the National Court Reporters Association. Captioners trained to specifically caption WOIO programming will be available to the entire captioning industry. This project will involve individuals with disabilities in its planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Products: This project will increase the capacity of the television captioning industry to respond to demands for accurate real-time captioning. The project will also improve the quality of life for the deaf and hard of hearing by providing daily hours of captioned local news and public information.
| Project Director: Finkelstein, Karen
National Captioning Institute, Inc. 1900 Gallows Rd., Suite 3000 Vienna, VA 22182-3865 Voice: 703-917-7600; Fax: 703-917-9878 E-mail: kfinkelstein@ncicap.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The National Captioning Institute (NCI) in collaboration with WHEC-TV in Rochester, New York, will complete closed captioning of approximately 2,886 hours of local news and public information television programming over a three-year period.
Methods: By increasing the number of programs it is captioning, WHEC-TV will expand the range of news and public affairs programming accessible to Rochester 's deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. As a demonstration of its commitment, the station will fund the real-time captioning of its 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. newscast Monday through Sunday. The programs for captioning with funds from this project include: (a) "News 10 NBC Today," airing Monday through Friday from 5:30 to 7:00 a.m.; (b) "News 10 NBC at Noon," airing Monday through Friday from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m.; (c) "Live at Five," airing Monday through Friday from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.; and (d) "News 10 NBC at Eleven," airing Sunday through Saturday from 11:00 to 11:35 p.m.
Products: The programming mix selected for real-time captioning under this project reflects a variety of WHEC-TV news and public information programs and addresses the diverse interests of the viewing audience for news coverage throughout the day.
| Project Director: Finkelstein, Karen
National Captioning Institute, Inc. 1900 Gallows Rd., Suite 3000 Vienna, VA 22182-3865 Voice: 703-917-7600; Fax: 703-917-9878 E-mail: kfinkelstein@ncicap.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The National Captioning Institute, collaborating with five major television Networks—NBC, Fox News Channel, BET, The Weather Channel, and Turner Entertainment Group—will provide over 17,353 hours of closed captioning services for national news and public information programming over the three-year period.
Methods: By adding these programs to the number already captioned, NCI will expand the range of news and public affairs programming accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing across the United States . The Weather Channel will provide a total of 1,820 hours per year of its daytime and evening programming available for captioning. For BET, NCI will caption a total of 286 hours per year of programming that includes a late-night weekly program and a weekend morning program. For Fox News Channel, NCI will caption 1,664 hours per year of news and analysis. Turner Entertainment Group will provide a new sports news program for captioning that will premiere on TNT in November 2002, for a total of 12.5 hours per year.
Products: The programming mix selected for real-time captioning under this project reflects a variety of national news and public information programs to address the diverse interests of viewing audience.
| Project Director: Duckler, Max S.
CaptionMax, Inc. 530 North Third St., #210 Minneapolis, MN 55401-1253 Voice: 612-341-3566; Fax: 612-341-2345 E-mail: max@captionmax.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will bring offline captioning and video descriptions to deaf and blind students, parents, and teachers nationwide. Programs to be captioned are provided by the National Educational Telecommunications Association and its independent television producers, which provide public television stations and educational entities with commercial-free products.
Methods: The project will caption 120 hours of commercial-free, children's educational programming to be licensed for classroom use. The staff of captioners and describers at CaptionMax has extensive experience in closed captioning and describing educational programs and its use of new software will help coordinate efforts to provide accurate captions and expressive descriptions. An advisory board made up of individuals who are either deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired will help select the programs and review the captioning and description.
Products: This project will make accessible a large number of educational programs that have never been described for blind or visually impaired students and that have never been captioned for deaf or hard-of-hearing students, thus making classroom materials fully accessible to this large population. In addition to the traditional audiences served by closed captioning, children who need assistance with their literacy or English skills would benefit. Students who have cognitive impairments or learning disabilities would benefit from the video descriptions provided through this project. Both CaptionMax and NETA will disseminate information about this project to PBS stations across the country and to various education-based publications and service providers to the deaf and blind communities.
| Project Director: Okrand, Marc National Captioning Institute, Inc. 1900 Gallows Rd., Suite 3000 Vienna, VA 22182-3865 Voice: 703-917-7600; Fax: 703-917-9878 E-mail: mokrand@ncicap.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The National Captioning Institute (NCI) will collaborate with six major television networks and producers—ABC, King World, Fox Broadcasting, Bloomberg, BET, and MSNBC—to provide 18,780 hours of closed captioning services for national news and public information programming. Through this project, NCI will continue efforts to expand the range of news and public affairs programming accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing across the United States .
Methods: ABC News will make its two morning news programs available for captioning, for a total of 2,600 hours of programming per year. Three programs from King World, airing both weekdays and weekends, will be captioned for a total of 182 hours per year. Fox Broadcasting will provide two shows, airing Thursday evening and Sunday morning, for a total of 124 hours per year of programming. Three news programs airing throughout the daytime hours from Bloomberg will be captioned for a total of 2,080 hours per year. BET will provide a half-hour weekly show that has never been captioned before, for 26 hours per year. MSNBC will provide 1,248 hours of its news per year for captioning.
Products: The programming mix selected for real-time captioning under this project reflects a variety of national news and public information programs and addresses the diverse interests of the viewing audience.| Project Director: Spellman III, John
WGBH Educational Foundation 125 Western Ave. Boston, MA 02134 Voice: 617-300-4010; Fax: 617-300-1020 E-mail: jack_spellman@wgbh.org | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: The Caption Center, a service of the Media Access Group at WGBH, will make local news and public information television programs accessible to New England 's approximately 1.4 million people who are deaf and hard of hearing, by providing high-quality real-time captioning.
Methods: Each year, 386 hours of local news and public information programming will be captioned. A portion of this public information programming will be freely available on public television. The remaining programming will be supplied by a 24-hour local news network on basic cable television. Captioned programs will include Basic Black and La Plaza from WGBH, and "News at Nine" and news/public information specials from New England Cable News. An additional objective of this project is to continue to reach out to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers to gather feedback and evaluation, and through the project's Consumer Advisory Group, approval on the program selection, educational value of the programming, and methods used for and quality of the captioning. Such feedback will be used to improve the project's captioning and outreach processes.
Products: By captioning local news and public information programming, this project will address the diverse interests and program choices of many different deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, such as public affairs programming aimed at African American and Latino audiences, and the human interest and hard news provided by daily local news broadcasts.| Project Director: Duckler, Max S.
CaptionMax, Inc. 530 N. Third St., #210 Minneapolis, MN 55401-1253 Voice: 612-341-3566; Fax: 612-341-2345 E-mail: max@captionmax.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will bring offline captioning and video description of children's television programs to deaf and blind children and their families. Programming will be provided by the children's television network, Nickelodeon, and its sister companies, Nick Games and Sports for Kids (GAS) and Noggin/The N.
Methods: All programs selected will be televised nationally and have a lengthy shelf life, airing many times on the individual networks and through cross-programming on the sister networks. Half of the selected programs will be broadcast as part of Cable in the Classroom and will be accompanied by support materials and teacher guides. All of the series chosen are educational in nature.
Products: CaptionMax will caption and describe 120 hours of children's programming. Through this project, CaptionMax will show the value of captioning and describing educational and culturally rich programs from networks designed specifically to reach kids.
| Project Director: Hansel, Michael
CaptionMax, Inc. 530 North Third St., #210 Minneapolis, MN 55401-1253 Voice: 612-341-3566; Fax: 612-341-2345 E-mail: mike@captionmax.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will caption news and informational programs in Spanish in order to provide access for the underserved population of deaf and hard-of-hearing Spanish-speaking television viewers. The use of television as a means to learn more about news, information, and culture has grown. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people are at a disadvantage when their programs are not captioned, and Spanish-language speakers who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (or who wish to increase their literacy in Spanish) will benefit from the captioning provided by this project.
Methods: Over the three years of this project, CaptionMax will provide live, real-time captioning for over 540 hours of Noticiero Telemundo ("Telemundo News"), which reaches approximately 90% of Hispanic homes. Feedback from consumers and local and national deaf organizations will help ensure continued quality captioning.
Products: The project will continue to bring vital live news programming to Spanish-speaking deaf and hard-of-hearing people to increase their knowledge of and interaction with the world at large. CaptionMax and the Telemundo Network will create a comprehensive outreach and publicity plan to make potential viewers aware of the availability of these Spanish-captioned news programs. Broadcast and cable system affiliates and English- and Spanish-language daily newspapers will be sent press releases and schedules.
| Project Director: Karlovits, Joseph
R. VITAC Corporation 101 Hillpointe Drive Canonsburg, PA 15317-9503 Voice: 724-514-4000; Fax: 724-514-4111 E-mail: joe-k@vitac.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Through this project, VITAC will caption 12.5 hours each week of ABC news programming available to national audiences, for a total of over 660 hours annually.
Methods: This project will provide deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans with access to national news and public information programs by captioning over 660 hours of national news programming annually and by monitoring and captioning up to 2,700 hours in the event of ABC news special reports. VITAC will monitor the quality of the captioning and will continue to seek input from the deaf community through its advisory panel and to inform the deaf community about this project.
Products: The project will disseminate information about its captioning services through its quarterly newsletter. Through its captioning, this project will help to meet the urgent daily needs of millions of who are deaf or hard of hearing and wish to be educated politically and culturally.| Project Director: Karlovits, Joseph
R. VITAC Corporation 101 Hillpointe Dr . Canonsburg, PA 15317-9503 Voice: 724-514-4000; Fax: 724-514-4111 E-mail: joe-k@vitac.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Through this project VITAC will expand its real-time captioning on WTAE-TV, the local ABC-affiliated station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by captioning 18 new hours of news reports each week.
Methods: This project will provide deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans with access to national news and public information programs by continuing to caption annually over 960 hours of local news programming and to help increase the captioning of locally televised new programming that closely matches preferences of the captioning audience. VITAC will monitor the quality of the captioning and will continue to seek input from the deaf community through its advisory panel and to inform the deaf community about this project.
Products: The project will disseminate information about its captioning services through its quarterly newsletter. Through its captioning, this project will help to meet the urgent daily needs of millions of who are deaf or hard of hearing and wish to be educated politically and culturally.
| Project Director: Schulman, Anne
L. Caption Services of Kansas, LLC P.O. Box 3593, 1118 E. 1600 Rd. Lawrence, KS 66046 -0593 Voice: 888-745-5380; Fax: 785-842-9997 E-mail: AnneCSK@cs.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will provide real-time stenographic captioning for news broadcasts on OETA, which reaches all of Oklahoma . The project will also provide real-time captioning for weekly public information programs on RNN, which serves the greater New York City area, and on Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, which serves Nebraska .
Methods: OETA is the statewide public television station for the state of Okalahoma. RNN is a regional news network providing a unique program format, mixing news, discussion, and call-in opportunities about current topics. Nebraska Educational Telecommunications produces public television programs for the entire state of Nebraska . All of these stations serve areas where the availability of stenographic real-time captioning on live programming is lacking. By carrying pagers, captioners and project co-directors will be available to quickly provide captioning for emergency broadcasts.
Products: The project will provide real-time captioning services for the entire three years to a total of over 5 million viewers in the combined markets of Oklahoma and Nebraska, as well as reaching 6 million households in the New York City/Hudson Valley/Connecticut/New Jersey (Tri-State) area served by RNN. The outcomes of the project will be increased access to local community news, both through daily newscasts and weekly public information programs, for viewers who have a hearing loss, are learning English as a second language, learning to read, or viewing in noisy environments.
| Project Director: Schulman, Anne
L. Caption Services of Kansas, LLC P.O. Box 3593, 1118 E. 1600 Rd. Lawrence, KS 66046 -0593 Voice: 888-745-5380; Fax: 785-842-9997 E-mail: AnneCSK@cs.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will provide real-time stenographic captioning for the programs produced and aired on the Kansas City, Missouri-owned cable city information station KCCG-TV2.
Methods: The City of Kansas City, Missouri, produces approximately 750 hours per year of city and county governmental affairs programs, including live broadcasts of city council and county legislative sessions. It is important that this information be made accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing residents of Kansas City, Missouri, an underserved market. By carrying pagers, captioners and project co-directors will be available to quickly provide captioning for emergency broadcasts.
Products: The project will provide real-time captioning services for the three years of the project to a total of over 450,000 viewers in Kansas City . These services will make public governmental and city information accessible to the approximately 40,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers living in Kansas City, as well as viewers who are learning English as a second language, learning to read, or viewing television in noisy environments.
| Project Director: Karlovits, Joseph
R. VITAC Corporation 101 Hillpointe Drive Canonsburg, PA 15317-9503 Voice: 724-514-4000; Fax: 724-514-4111 E-mail: joe-k@vitac.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Through this project, VITAC will caption 7.5 hours each week of CBS news programming available to national audiences.
Methods: The project will provide deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans with access to national news and public information programs by captioning over 390 hours of national news programming annually and by monitoring and captioning up to 525 hours of CBS news special reports. VITAC will monitor the quality of the captioning and will continue to seek input from the deaf community through its advisory panel and to inform the deaf community about this project.
Products: The project will disseminate information about its captioning services through its quarterly newsletter, which is distributed to print and broadcast media. Through its captioning, this project will help to meet the urgent daily needs of millions of who are deaf or hard of hearing and wish to be educated politically and culturally.
| Project Director: Patterson, Kala
J. Caption Services of Kansas, LLC P.O. Box 3593, 1118 E. 1600 Rd. Lawrence, KS 66046 -0593 Voice: 888-206-3591; Fax: 785-842-8693 E-mail: KalaCSK@cs.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will provide real-time stenographic captioning for news broadcasts on KCTV in Kansas City, Missouri / Kansas and real-time captioning for WCVE weekly public information programs in Richmond/Petersburg, Virginia.
Methods: In each year of the project, Captioning Services of Kansas will provide approximately 825 hours of real-time captioning for the KCTV and WCVE television stations. By providing full access to the KCTV's morning show and 4:30 to 5 p.m. news broadcast, this project will begin to fulfill the needs of viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. WCVE, the cooperating public broadcasting station in Richmond, will be given the real-time stenographic captioning on certain programs such as Virginia Currents.
Products: The project will make local news and public information programming accessible to the approximately 450,000 total deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers in both Richmond/Petersburg and Kansas City . The outcomes of this project will increase access to local community news, both through daily newscasts and weekly public information programs, for viewers who have a hearing loss, are learning English as a second language, are learning to read, or are viewing in noisy environments.
| Project Director: Karlovits, Joseph
R. VITAC Corporation 101 Hillpointe Drive Canonsburg, PA 15317-9503 Voice: 724-514-4000; Fax: 724-514-4111 E-mail: joe-k@vitac.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: This project will provide real-time, daily, captioned Spanish-language newscasts for America 's Latino deaf population. Closed-captioned television is virtually the only cultural experience which hearing and nonhearing members of the same family can share on equal footing. This project will ameliorate the lack of television programming currently accessible to a deaf person who does not speak or read English, by providing access to national and international news programming for the population who is deaf or hard of hearing and whose primary language is Spanish.
Methods: The project will provide five hours each week of real-time, daily captioned Spanish-language newscasts. The Telemundo network, where this captioning will be provided, reaches 90% of the Hispanic community in America . VITAC will work with a service with extensive experience in creating Spanish captioning to provide high-quality, reliable Spanish-language real-time captioning of Telemundo newscasts, totaling 260 hours annually.
Products: The project will disseminate information about its captioning services through its quarterly newsletter, which is distributed to both print and broadcast media. VITAC's advisory panel for captions and video description will help expand the informational effort to the deaf and Hispanic community. Through its captioning, this project will help, in part, to meet the daily needs of millions of Spanish-speaking Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing.
| Project Director: Karlovits, Joseph
R. VITAC Corporation 101 Hillpointe Drive Canonsburg, PA 15317-9503 Voice: 724-514-4000; Fax: 724-514-4111 E-mail: joe-k@vitac.com | Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Through this project, VITAC will caption 47.5 hours each week of Court TV programming available to national audiences.
Methods: This project will provide deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans with access to information by captioning over 2,300 hours annually of live Court TV trial coverage and reporting and by monitoring and captioning up to 134 hours of new prerecorded informational programs that air in primetime on Court TV. VITAC will monitor the quality of the captioning and will continue to seek input from the deaf community through its advisory panel and to inform the deaf community about this project.
Products: The project will disseminate information about its captioning services through its quarterly newsletter, which is distributed to print and broadcast media. Through its captioning, this project will help to meet the daily needs of millions of who are deaf or hard of hearing and wish to be educated politically and culturally.
| Project Director: Karlovits, Joseph
R. VITAC Corporation 101 Hillpointe Dr . Canonsburg, PA 15317-9503 Voice: 724-514-4000; Fax: 724-514-4111 E-mail: joe-k@vitac.com |
Beginning Date: 10/1/2002
Ending Date: 9/30/2005 OSEP Contact: Jo Ann McCann |
Purpose: Through this project VITAC will expand its real-time captioning services on WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, and provide new real-time captioning for WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . The project will entail real-time weekly captioning of 10 hours of news reporting in each of the markets.
Methods: This project will provide deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans with access to national news and public information programs by continuing to caption annually over 1040 hours annually of local news broadcasting in two of America's largest cities and to increase the captioning of locally televised programming that closely matches the preferences of the captioning audience. VITAC will monitor the quality of the captioning and will continue to seek input from the deaf community through its advisory panel and to inform the deaf community about this project.
Products: The project will disseminate information about its captioning services through its quarterly newsletter. Through its captioning, this project will help to meet the urgent daily needs of millions of who are deaf or hard of hearing and wish to be educated politically and culturally.
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