[Nfbofnc] FWD: 44th Presidential Inaugural with DVS Coverage
gerald moreno sr
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Mon Jan 19 20:07:46 UTC 2009
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--- On Fri, 1/16/09, Mary Watkins <
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wrote:
From: Mary Watkins <
mary_watkins at wgbh.org
Subject: [Promotion-technology] 2009 Inauguration Coverage on PBS to be
Described and Captioned Live
To:
david.andrews at nfbnet.org
Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 4:10 PM
January 16, 2009
Press Contact:
Mary Watkins
617 300-3700
<
mary_watkins at wgbh.htmmary_watkins@wgbh.org
Media Access Group at WGBH To Provide Closed Captioning And
Live Description for PBS's Inaugural Coverage
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/
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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