I usually watch music performances with the captions turned on so that I can read the lyrics, and I've noticed that most late night shows rarely, if ever, use captioning for foreign language musical guests - they usually use a standard "singing in foreign language" message. The one program I watch that takes care to use Spanish captions is "Austin City Limits," which has had one or two Spanish language acts per season for the last few years.
On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 1:56:20 AM UTC-5 Jim Ellwanger wrote: > Based on my experiences during my closed-captioning career, the CBS > president's statement "We worked with a closed captioning vendor that did > not execute at a standard to which we should rightfully be held" is code > for "We didn't spend enough money on the captioning for them to use a > bilingual live captioner, but I guess we're going to be forced to shell out > the extra cash from now on." (It's also highly likely that the Grammys > didn't care enough about the captioning to provide the captioners with a > rundown so that they could prepare captions for the song lyrics in advance, > although that obviously wouldn't have helped with the Bad Bunny acceptance > speech.) > > > On Feb 10, 2023, at 6:55 PM, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > > The generic "*speaking/singing in non-English*" subtitle, natch, didn't > go over too well... especially with California congressmember Robert > Garcia, to whose complaint network head George Cheeks responded Friday > (10)... > > > https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/cbs-live-closed-captioning-bad-bunny-grammys-controversy-1235519958/ > (link) > > B > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/0586f7fa-b878-49a3-b048-0619eb3f9592n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/0586f7fa-b878-49a3-b048-0619eb3f9592n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/5df2e1c0-d690-439f-b466-cff635e3f0ben%40googlegroups.com.
