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IRT –
VITAC
Partnership
Stark State College and
VITAC Corporation have become
“partners” in order to develop, implement and sustain a leading captioning
program in the country that will prepare future broadcast captioners.
VITAC’s technical expertise and commitment to Stark’s IRT program is
immeasurable and one that will enable Stark to become a leader in captioning
education.
VITAC is the country’s largest provider of closed captioning for television
broadcasts and are feeling the effects of a national shortage of workers who
provide realtime captions for live television programming.
VITAC captions
everything from news to sports to the Home Shopping Network. As the industry
struggles to recruit students, it also finds itself facing federal mandates
that will continually raise the percentage of closed-captioned programming over
the next several years.
VITAC is an acronym for Vital Access Through
Captioning. Both the breadth and scope of closed captioning are expected to grow
to
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so-called off-line media like videotapes.
The current mandate from the Federal Communications Commission calls for 100 percent
of all English programs and 25 percent of Spanish programs be captioned by
2006. While the FCC mandate is stimulating the live broadcast side of the
industry, a section of the Americans With Disabilities Act will soon require
that more and more non-broadcast programming – videotaped movies, corporate
teleconferences and Internet programs - carry closed captioning.
VITAC
has generously donated captioning equipment for the new captioning lab in the
W.R. Timken Information Technology building. This professional soundproof
captioning lab is connected to a 21-computer classroom utilizing captioning
software to train both current students and transitioning reporters.
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