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By Deanna Baker When considering DOS-based vs. Windows-based, it's a somewhat easy decision. DOS is ancient, old, archaic. It's tough to find a computer where a DOS program will work. You want and need the flexibility of Windows-based programs to access the Internet, have e-mail, instant messaging, Real Player capabilities, send realtime to the Internet, Go Back capability, Explore capabilities, s…
Categories: Captioning
By Deanna Baker Do I need to still get my RPR to become a captioner? Well, this all depends on where you'll be working. If you are applying for a full-time job with some companies, this may be mandatory. Otherwise, as a freelance captioner it may not be mandatory but highly, highly suggested, not just for your own skill level, but to show the captioning companies you may be working for what your …
Categories: Captioning, Certification and Testing
By Deanna Baker What does it mean when a show is preempted? Does it air at another time or not at all? Do I caption what airs in its place? If as a captioner you are scheduled to caption a 5 p.m. news broadcast and it has been preempted by another program — for example, replaced by another program such as a sporting event or other special — that 5 p.m. news broadcast has been cancelled. Unless ot…
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By Amy Bowlen Someone likely to succeed as a realtime captioner does not have a completely different set of characteristics or qualities from someone likely to succeed as a reporter working in any other environment. For that matter, the characteristics present in a successful student are probably the same as those of a successful judicial reporter, CART provider or realtime captioner. When report…
Categories: Captioning, Employment Opportunities
By Jennifer L.C. Pridmore Captioning a sporting event is just like captioning a news broadcast, right? Wrong. Sports programming offers unique challenges to the captioner, ranging from a required encyclopedic knowledge of the sport to an understanding of positioning captions to dealing with announcers fighting to get a word in edgewise. For some, this could be just the ticket. In 1993 when Kevin …
By Peggy Belflower, RMR One veteran captioner offers her thoughtson how to prepare for a career in captioning. Today, court reporting students and court reporters alike consider captioning as a career, but a dozen years ago, it was not so. There were fewer than 100 court-reporters-cum-captioners in the nation when I made my fateful and rewarding leap into the dedicated group of court reporters wh…
By Gary D. Robson Are you looking to caption at the national level?Here's how to do it. You've paid your dues and put in some time captioning on a local level. TV news, perhaps, or your favorite sports team. City council meetings, or a talk show on your cable network's community access channel. Now you're ready to make the leap into national work. How do you prepare yourself? What's going to b…
By Chris L. Crosgrove, CPE, Englewood, Colo. One of the newer venues that has opened to captioners is in realtiming financial reporting calls to the Internet. This arena is usually considered to be part of an area sometimes called webcasting. Webcasting can be loosely defined as realtime translations which are fed to an Internet Web site. Events that might be webcast include meetings, conference …
By Judith H. Brentano, RPR, FAPR, DSA, Punta Gorda, Fla. Who pioneered captioning? That question was answered in May 2005 when the Accessible Media Industry Coalition (AMIC) gathered in Fairfax, Va., to celebrate captioning's 25th anniversary. Keynote speaker Karen Peltz Strauss, who is currently deputy chief of the Consumer Information Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission where she ov…