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Closed Captioning

The CAB’s Closed Captioning Manual was approved in principle by both the CAB's Television and Specialty and Pay Boards at their last meeting in October 2002, and is designed to establish English-language closed captioning standards acceptable to all stakeholders - the caption consumers, the caption creators and private broadcasters - in order to ensure the uniform and consistent application of these standards across the Canadian captioning industry. The CAB encourages all of its English-language broadcasters to make full use of the captioning practices and procedures outlined in the manual.

• December 15, 2008 - Submission
  CRTC PN 2007-54 – A New Policy with Respect to Closed Captioning - Report: Closed Captioning Validation Sessions – Findings and Analysis (pdf)
  
  
• December 2, 2008 - Submission
  Preliminary Report on the English-and French-Language Working Groups’ Recommendations on Quality Captioning: CRTC Public Notice 2007-54 – A New Policy with Respect to Closed Captioning (pdf)
  
  
• December 2008
  Closed Captioning Standards and Protocol for Canadian English Language Television Programming Services (pdf)
  
  
• July 17, 2006
  Requested Technical and Operational Information Related to the Provision of Closed Captioning by Canadian Private Broadcasters