[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'173623\' date=\'Jan 2 2008, 01:28 PM\']
There's some technology out now that makes it easier to caption so I'm guessing that might be why. While in the past you had to physically type in the information there is now some voice recognition software that can be used and it's less expensive. I know because a certain network I wont shamelessly self-promote just started using it, where in the past we had to pay an off-site company to do it. Now somebody sits in a room and vocally repeats (clearly) into a microphone what is said on air and VOILA, captions.
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Ah, yes, voicewriting. Unfortunately, much as there's a lot more to a good game show than saying "hey, let's revive 'Sale of the Century,'" there's a lot more to good closed captioning than "repeat[ing] (clearly) into a microphone what is said on air and VOILA, captions."
Anyway, now that it's 2008, everything airing on TV between 6:00 A.M. and midnight is supposed be captioned. They may not be what I would consider captions, but as long as there are some sort of letters being superimposed somewhere on the screen at most of the points where people are talking, the FCC is fine with it.