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Subject: Media Access Group at WGBH Boston to Provide Closed

Captioning and Live Description for PBS Inaugural Coverage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Access Group at WGBH Boston to Provide Closed Captioning

and Live Description for PBS Inaugural Coverage

Described version of coverage also will stream live on the Joint

Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) website:

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BOSTON, January 19, 2017 - The Media Access Group at WGBH, a

service of Boston public media producer WGBH, will provide both

closed captioning and live description of President-elect Donald

J. Trump's inauguration for PBS NewsHour Inauguration 2017: A

Special Report. The PBS coverage of the inauguration airs live

on Friday, January 20 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m 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. In 1993, WGBH provided the service for

PBS's coverage of the Clinton inauguration, making it 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. This year the description service for this

broadcast is being sponsored by the 58th Presidential Inaugural

Committee.

"WGBH is proud to take part in making this historic event fully

accessible to all PBS viewers through live closed captioning and

video description," says Alison Godburn, Senior Director of the

Media Access Group at WGBH. "And we're extremely grateful to

PBS, the team at NewsHour Productions and to the sponsor of the

live description 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."

While details from the inaugural planning committee are still

forthcoming, PBS plans to include coverage of the presidential

inauguration procession, the speech and the swearing-in.

The special broadcast will be anchored by NewsHour managing

editor Judy Woodruff, with NewsHour correspondents John Yang

reporting from the steps of the United States Capitol and Lisa

Desjardins from the National Mall. Joining Woodruff in studio

will be a panel of guests including The New York Times columnist

David Brooks; syndicated columnist Mark Shields; The Cook

Political Report's Amy Walter; PBS NewsHour Weekend special

correspondent Jeff Greenfield; chair of the American Conservative

Union Matt Schlapp; interim director of The George Washington

University Graduate School of Political Management Lara Brown;

and senior advisor and national spokesperson for @MoveOn Karine

Jean-Pierre.

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 studios - 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. The described coverage will also be streamed

live on the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies

(JCCIC) website at

http://www..inaugural.senate.gov/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.c

om/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.inaugural.senate.gov_&d=DQMF-g&c=lDF7oMa

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For more than 44 years, public broadcaster WGBH has been a

pioneer in developing methods and solutions to make media

accessible to people with disabilities. The team has decades of

technical production experience in both traditional and emerging

media. From creation of captions and video descriptions to

research and development pursuits that connect with television,

cinema, government, educational institutions, museums, national

parks and industry, WGBH is committed to serving disability

communities at both the leadership and grassroots levels.

About WGBH

WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcaster and the

largest producer of PBS content for TV and the Web. Television

channels include WGBH 2, WGBX 44, and the digital channels World

and Create. WGBH Radio serves listeners across New England with

89.7 WGBH, Boston's Local NPR(r); 99.5 WCRB; and WCAI, the Cape

and Islands NPR(r) Station. Find more information at

www..wgbh.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A_

_www.wgbh.org&d=DQMF-g&c=lDF7oMaPKXpkYvev9V-fVahWL0QWnGCCAfCDz1Bn

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Ellen London

Media Relations Manager

WGBH

(617) 300-3904

www.wgbh.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__

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-- 
Gary Allen
President
National Federation of the Blind
Of Connectucut
(860) 589-2241
garyallenct at gmail.com
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