Closed Captioning on Reruns

[Markxxx]

I noticed on WWME-CA, channel 23 in Chicago, certain reruns lack closed captioning. Like The Facts of Life and Bewitched which I a pretty sure (though not 100%) sure I saw with closed captioning on other cable stations.

Does it cost more to rerun them with the closed captioning? I have my closed captioning turned on correctly. Just wondering why some stations reruns have the closed captioning and some don't.

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[bpatrick]

> I noticed on WWME-CA, channel 23 in Chicago, certain reruns
> lack closed captioning. Like The Facts of Life and Bewitched
> which I a pretty sure (though not 100%) sure I saw with
> closed captioning on other cable stations.
>
> Does it cost more to rerun them with the closed captioning?
> I have my closed captioning turned on correctly. Just
> wondering why some stations reruns have the closed
> captioning and some don't.
>
I think that in many cases (certainly on first-run shows
like Jeopardy! and Wheel Of Fortune), a company will underwrite
closed captioning in exchange for a product mention ("closed
captioning provided by..."). Channel 23 may not be able to
afford to close-caption alone or hasn't found anyone willing to
pay for it.

 

[rugrats1]

> I think that in many cases (certainly on first-run shows
> like Jeopardy! and Wheel Of Fortune), a company will
> underwrite
> closed captioning in exchange for a product mention ("closed
>
> captioning provided by..."). Channel 23 may not be able to
> afford to close-caption alone or hasn't found anyone willing
> to
> pay for it.
>
The station itself has nothing to do with the closed-captioning on reruns -- they may be using older tapes supplied by the syndicator, which may not have CC encoded in them. And of course, there are some series of reruns that are still not CC'd at all.

The point is -- CC in reruns is the responsibility of the syndicator, not the station.

 

[Markxxx]

> The station itself has nothing to do with the
> closed-captioning on reruns -- they may be using older tapes
> supplied by the syndicator, which may not have CC encoded in
> them. And of course, there are some series of reruns that
> are still not CC'd at all.
>
> The point is -- CC in reruns is the responsibility of the
> syndicator, not the station.
>
I just assumed like on newer shows like The Facts of Life (ok so it's not so new, can you believe it's over 20 years old-well some of it is)which aired with closed caption in the original run that the it would automatically have it.<P ID="signature">______________
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[jwk1979]

> > The station itself has nothing to do with the
> > closed-captioning on reruns -- they may be using older
> tapes
> > supplied by the syndicator, which may not have CC encoded
> in
> > them. And of course, there are some series of reruns that
> > are still not CC'd at all.
> >
> > The point is -- CC in reruns is the responsibility of the
> > syndicator, not the station.
> >
> I just assumed like on newer shows like The Facts of Life
> (ok so it's not so new, can you believe it's over 20 years
> old-well some of it is)which aired with closed caption in
> the original run that the it would automatically have it.
>
UPN 30 in Nashville airs back-to-back episodes of The Andy Griffith Show each night at 10:00 PM and I have noticed that some episodes will have closed captioning while other episodes will not. Yet all the episodes shown on TV Land will feature CC.