CBC captioning errors and omissions (Joe Clark)

More items for ’09

2009-02-25T17:56:00-05:00

Very little in the way of missing captioning, but much misuse of scrollup captioning.

What do the CBC captioning manuals say?

2008-04-10T13:51:00-05:00

I have them and now I can tell you.

Heritage report on CBC is finally out

2008-03-16T14:29:00-05:00

<ul><li>The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage finally produced its <a href="http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?COM=13180&Lang=1&SourceId=228150" title="Role of a Public Broadcaster in the 21st Century">report</a> on the CBC. Typographically and orthographically, it’s a disaster, since it’s “typeset” in Arial (really just printed out in Microsoft Word) and uses across-the-board British spellings. The committee essentially ignored my <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/Heritage/submission/" title="Submission to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on CBC accessibility">evidence</a> and decided that the only problem is real-time captioning in French.</li> <li>A couple of <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/errors/#Y2008" title="Year 2008 errors">additional CBC captioning lacunæ</a>.</li></ul>

Guest blog at Teamakers

2008-02-16T13:30:00-05:00

<a href="http://teamakers.blogspot.com/2008/02/guest-blogger-easy-win-for-hubie-love.html" title="An easy win for Hubie the Love Bug">An easy win for Hubie the Love Bug</a>.

CBC captioning atrocity update

2007-11-21T15:09:00-05:00

They’re doing a couple of things better, but most everything else is unimproved. And they’re now doing something officially banned since 1995. As they say: Your tax dollars at work

Captioning-errors list updated

2007-08-12T16:45:00-00:00

We’ve now regressed to 1989 and are using Teleprompters to caption <cite>CBC News at Six</cite>

Transcript of my remarks to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage

2007-05-09T14:25:00-05:00

I <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/21/evidentiary/" title="‘Is this going on a blog site?’">appeared at a hearing</a> in Toronto on 2007.04.20 (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/sets/72157600103287001/" title="Flickr: Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage">photos</a>). My remarks were later <a href="transcript/" title="Transcript of remarks to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage">transcribed</a>

My written submission to Heritage is now online

2007-04-20T15:30:00-05:00

You can now read my <a href="/access/captioning/CBC/Heritage/" title="Submission to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on CBC accessibility">written submission</a> to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, Toronto, concerning CBC accessibility, just in time for my appearance before that esteemed Committee (with <a href="transcript/" title="Transcript of remarks to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage">transcript of later remarks</a>)

Giving ‘evidence’ about CBC accessibility

2007-04-16T18:11:00-05:00

This Friday, 2007.04.20, I’m giving “evidence” before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, Toronto, concerning CBC accessibility. (I’ve been there already – twice – in the last 15 years)

What is going on with Teleprompter captioning?

2007-02-18T15:53:00-05:00

On <cite>CBC News at Six</cite> and some interstitials, I’ve been seeing actual Teleprompter captioning, as though this were 1988. Didn’t CBC spend a million dollars on Swift for a reason?

Subtitled movies are so easy to caption!

2006-11-24T17:33:00-05:00

I updated the list of CBC captioning errors for October and most of November. And wouldn’t you know it: Even after Nugget at Dignan and Anthony <a href="http://dignanandanthony.blogspot.com/2006/05/chored-out_18.html" title="Chored Out">blogged about captioning it</a> and how super-easy it is to caption subtitled movies, lo and behold, the subtitled movie <cite>Hero</cite> aired without captions

Updating the error list for September

2006-10-02T15:13:00-05:00

Can somebody explain to me why CBC keeps running and rerunning <cite>The Mexican</cite> with scrollup captions even though the movie was captioned for first-run cinema and VHS and DVD with pop-on captions and CBC had nearly two years to recaption it in pop-on?

A couple of old documents on an old CBC captioning project

2006-10-02T13:58:00-05:00

Seemingly a lifetime ago, I worked on <a href="http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/online/" title="Old CBC News Online captioning project">a project to reuse TV captions in CBC News Online video</a>. It lasted a good two years, and has now been effaced from the Web simply because CBC refuses to publish the URLs to all the old captioned videos. This was yet another leadership position the CBC abdicated

Finishing up July, starting August

2006-08-21T16:11:00-05:00

We close July 2006 with a whimper, but begin August stronger than usual. Hint, though: <samp class="cc">THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE</samp> is actually not italicized

Why is <cite>49th and Main</cite> such a trouble spot?

2006-07-24T15:16:00-05:00

The dreadful <cite>49th and Main</cite> has some serious problems with captioning Punjabi. Then there are the extros for <cite>Hustle</cite> and <cite>The Ring</cite>, where captions don’t match the audio. And, for the love of God, stop italicizing <cite>CBC</cite>

Changed the homepage to a quick-reference guide

2006-07-13T14:38:00-05:00

The <a rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/" title="Quick introduction: What’s wrong with CBC captioning?">CBC captioning homepage</a> now is a quick-reference guide, with <a rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/further.html" title="CBC captioning errors and omissions">further details</a> on a second page. (Admittedly not related to an updated list of errors, but still)

Added categories

2006-07-12T15:38:00-05:00

For later machine processing, I added categories or classifications to each entry, and added a few more of those entries

Three more CBC captioning errors and omissions

2006-07-08T19:08:00-05:00

I turn my back for five minutes and they still screw up</a>

CBC Captioning Errors and Omissions launches

2006-07-04T15:00:00-05:00

For the obsessives among you, I am now publishing my ongoing data on CBC captioning errors and omissions at least once a month. (In case you don’t know, CBC Television and Newsworld have a 100% captioning requirement – every second of the broadcast day has to be captioned. It isn’t)