Sunday, October 16, 2011

Captioning History

Broadcast captioner Holli Miller remained on the job on September 11, 2001 for 5 hours to provide closed captioning for a New York TV station covering terrorist attacks. She typed upwards of 60,000 words without bathroom breaks and with her 4 and 5-year-olds in her house.

Source: Vitac, a Pittsburgh-based company that provides captioning services