Media Access Group At WGBH To Provide  Closed Captioning &
Live Description  For PBS's Inaugural Coverage

The Media Access Group at WGBH, a non-profit  service of the
WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, will
provide both closed captioning and live description of George W.
Bush,s presidential inauguration for the PBS presentation of
Inauguration 2001, a NewsHour special hosted by Jim Lehrer.

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) coverage of the
inauguration airs live on Saturday, January 20 from 11am to
1:30pm EST (check local listings).   This broadcast will make the
first inauguration of the millennium fully accessible to some 36
million deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind and visually impaired
Americans.   In 1993, PBS's coverage of the Clinton inauguration
was the first live television program that was made fully
accessible to deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind and visually impaired
viewers.

PBS's two-and-a-half-hour inaugural broadcast will be both
closed captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers and
described for blind and visually impaired viewers.  Captioning
will be provided by The Caption Center and description will be
provided by Descriptive Video ServiceR, both services of the
Media Access Group at WGBH in Boston. The Media Access
Group at WGBH will also provide closed captioning for the CBS
News inaugural coverage.

Hosted by Jim Lehrer of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the PBS
presentation will feature political analysts Mark Shields and Paul
Gigot, as well as a panel of political historians, including Doris
Kearns Goodwin, Haynes Johnson, Michael Beschloss, Richard
Norton Smith and Roger Wilkins.  PBS's coverage will follow the
presidential motorcade from the White House to the Capitol and
will  include the swearing-in ceremony, inaugural address,
21-gun salute and departure of President Clinton by helicopter
from the Capitol.

NOTE:  For the complete Press Release, go to the News Room
at:  <http://www.visionww.org>


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