Big TYPO on KABC's Closed Caption. Evacuating to Ejacu...

[Amra 171]

Since I don't know how to post pictures to posts, I want you to see the picture on this link:

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/non_aviation/read.main/1778101/

Now that's a big typo

[Tyler 151]

Hahaha. That's a good one!

[Guest zas1977]

dude. so typical. whomever writes these closed captions needs to SLOW DOWN.

[clind 2]

Well, that's definitely something. For all those reading the captions, the fires just became a lot more interesting/confusing.

[alaskanews 122]

Wow, they actually have someone who types it. Ours comes from our prompter, unless it is the same there and someone was asking to get fired...

[Amra 171]

dude. so typical. whomever writes these closed captions needs to SLOW DOWN.

 

 

 

I don't live in LA nor watch news with CC on.

[qunewsguy 378]

Do yourselves all a favor and turn CC on for a syndicated daily-run show sometime. The gym I hit up has it on all the time and I've been surprised by how bad some of the CC text is, not only with simple misspellings and incorrect words, but sitautions like this where I've seen "sex" instead of "six", "cock" instead of "clock", and several other words I'm not sure I'd even be able to post on this board.

 

As for CC on local news, I know major markets and some smaller markets will have closed captioning done in realtime via phone line from somebody who's wayyyy out of market. Imagine trying to type at around 150 words a minute listening to a phone without making any mistakes and see how you can manage to do. At a station I used to work at the CC service was done in Washington D.C. and piped back up for the encoding into the signal. That same station tried using voice recognition to do closed capitioning as well for a brief period of time but that was a major disaster, especially if it wasn't calibrated for the correct speaker's voice ahead of time. But that's another story altogether.

 

Most of the time in smaller markets though, prompter is it for CC encoding, and good luck with trying to read that, especially with the way some anchors will use ... , and - in their scripts in order to highlight portions of words to EM-pha...size words.

 

I pity the folks who have to rely on closed captioning when watching TV... I'd probably want to stop watching altogether!

[KRAP-TV 146]

The comments on airliners.net are a hoot! My fave:

 

"Some people get really excited during a fire."

[ABC7 Los Angeles 1]

Priceless! That's just the CC, I've seen some funnier typos on the actual L3s themselves.

 

Here is a really bad one on the L3 from MSNBC. WARNING: This might be offensive to some people, that's why I'm linking it and not actually posting it.

 

http://www.cymerian.com/innis.jpg

[mbhcity 3]

Priceless! That's just the CC, I've seen some funnier typos on the actual L3s themselves.

 

Here is a really bad one on the L3 from MSNBC. WARNING: This might be offensive to some people, that's why I'm linking it and not actually posting it.

 

http://www.cymerian.com/innis.jpg

 

sad but it just goes to show how important accuracy is!

[Vlad 330]

I'm suprised that the west coast flagship doesnt' have an automated system. Very odd...

[qunewsguy 378]

Larger market stations use real-time because when using an "automated" prompter-based system large portions of shows will be missing, like live shots, weather forecasts unless they're typed in manually, and other events during a show. Not to mention viewers would also be able to read all the anchors' script formatting, like adding ellipsis, commas, and hyphens in the middle of words, not to mention the misspellings from the raw scripts. No closed captioning system will ever be perfect until realtime speech recognition is perfected.

[btbrtq3 0]

Gosh, KABC + MSNBC (Mostly KABC) really need to practice typing their captions and l3's. Brian Moore, one of NBC's white house reporters got labeled as 'Brain Moore' on one of their broadcasts. Some people need to get one of him.

[rtmclaug 70]

Everybody makes mistakes, and mistakes are few and far between. But then again, they should be few and far between. The typer made an honest mistake, but he should slow down, take his time, and do a good job.

[Alain 17]

The captioner can't slow down, he'll fall way behind, and the viewer will loose the sync between the images and captions. IMO, captioners should go through very extensive training.

 

I know I'm bumping an old topic...