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>Subject: 2009 Inauguration Coverage on PBS to be Described and Captioned Live
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>January 16, 2009
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>Media Access Group at WGBH To Provide Closed Captioning And Live
>Description for PBS's Inaugural Coverage
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>Described version of coverage will also stream live on the Joint
>Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) web site,
><http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/>http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/
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>Boston, MA 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 Barack Obama's presidential
>inauguration for the PBS presentation of Inauguration 2009, a NewsHour
>special hosted by Jim Lehrer. The PBS coverage of the inauguration airs
>live on Tuesday, January 20 from 11AM to 1:30PM EST. While live captioning
>is an established feature of many television broadcasts, live description,
>the creation at time of air of a narration track imparting information
>about visual elements that people who are blind or visually impaired would
>miss, is a rare service. Dunkin' Donuts is generously sponsoring the
>description service for this broadcast. In 1993, PBS's coverage of the
>Clinton inauguration was the first live television program that was made
>fully accessible to the nation's 36 million deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind
>and visually impaired viewers.
>
>While details from the inaugural planning committee are still forthcoming,
>PBS plans to include coverage of Barack Obama's arrival at the White
>House, excerpts of the church service and Barack Obama's speech to the
>nation from the Capitol steps.
>
>Hosted by Jim Lehrer of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the PBS presentation
>will feature political analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks, as well as
>a panel to provide historical context:
>
>• Ellen Fitzpatrick, presidential historian and professor at the
>University of New Hampshire
>• Peniel Joseph, professor of history and African-American studies at
>Brandeis University
>• Richard Brookhiser, senior editor at National Review and author of a
>series of biographies of America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton
>and George Washington
>
>"WGBH is proud to take part in making this historic event fully accessible
>to all PBS viewers once again," says Media Access Group director Larry
>Goldberg. "And we're extremely grateful to PBS, the team at MacNeil/Lehrer
>Productions and to corporate sponsor of the live description Dunkin'
>Donuts for the opportunity to bring not only the audio of the inaugural
>coverage to deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans, but also the visual
>highlights of the occasion to those who are blind or visually impaired."
>
>Dunkin' Donuts, for many years a corporate caption sponsor of local news
>broadcasts in the Boston area, is sponsoring description for the first
>time. Shannon Maxwell, field marketing manager for Dunkin' Donuts says,
>"Dunkin' Donuts individual franchise owners are proud to play a part of
>making this major event accessible to blind and visually impaired
>audiences. We are thrilled that our contribution will make the images of
>the day come alive via description."
>
>Closed captions display spoken dialogue as text on the television
>screen. The live captions will be typed by specially trained
>stenocaptioners working from WGBH’s Boston-based headquarters and
>broadcast simultaneously with the live program. The descriptive narration
> provided by an expert team of describers will be audible during pauses
>in program dialogue and will identify speakers, describe settings and
>convey other visual information about the event. Captions can be accessed
>on televisions equipped with built-in decoders (most televisions are
>equipped), while viewers can hear descriptions by switching to the Second
>Audio Program (SAP) channel on their stereo TVs. The described coverage
>will also be streamed live on the Joint Congressional Committee on
>Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) web site at
><http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/>http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/
>
>The Media Access Group at WGBH incorporates The Caption Center, the
>world's first captioning agency, founded in 1972; Descriptive Video
>Service® (DVS®), which has made television, film and video more accessible
>to blind and visually impaired audiences since 1990; and the Carl and Ruth
>Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), a research and
>development entity that builds on the success of WGBH's access service
>departments to make existing and emerging technologies more accessible to
>these under-served audiences. Members of the Media Access Group's
>collective staff represent the leading resources and experts in their fields.
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