Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it just an OKC thing?
I multi task (if you can call it that) a lot when at home. Surf net, listen to CDs, have TV on mute checking it periodically…
During the local news, CC comes and goes. It is on during anchor speak, but off during remotes and weather. Is it because no one is there to CC the live stuff? I assume the anchor’s stories are scripted, so the CC can be done ahead of time. Am I right?
Not really of pressing importance, just curious.
Ahh … reminds me of a baseball broadcast – I think it was ESPN – in which the closed-captioning was supposed to mention the fact that a certain player was 22 years of age. Instead, it came out as “22 years of anal.”
Great! Now this is gonna be a thread of CC snafus.
Some of which can be highly entertaining. 
Nothing really to add, I just wanted to ask if you went to OU, NCB
No, but I do a fair amount of work in the Norman area. Construction / remodel. Nothing coming up down there yet, though. I live in the Nichols Hills/NW OKC area.
I just also happen to be an internet junky.
I hope to go to a couple of Sooner games, tho, if the Gods favor me. I’ll post in LJ when I do, maybe some of us can hook up.
I work in broadcasting, so I may have some insight into this.
We are required to have all of our programming CC’d by 2007 (I think.) This is a two-fold process. We have several employees who do nothing but listen to previously taped shows, transcribe them, and enter the closed captioned information. As you might expect, this generally results in fairly accurate cc’d info.
However, our live programming is handled by an outside service. They listen to the program and caption as it goes, like court stenographers do during a trial. Errors can result in this, since it has to be done on the fly and the captioner sometimes enters things phonetically. So you sometimes you get some odd cc on the screen.
During live news, yes, the anchor’s scripts are ready for them in case the teleprompter fails, but I don’t know that there’s enough time to provide the scripts to the cc service. In any event, during a live show, the anchors may need to drop stories or chatter a bit to stay with the clock. Following a script strictly in that case could be a bit messy.
I thought maybe a computer transcribed live broadcasts and that caused the inaccuracy…not that I actually know anything about it.
I like when it appears that the captions were done before the censors got ahold of the script or whatever. Sometimes you get to see the dirty words on screen 
Sometimes I like the descriptions of sounds. Like when Peter Griffin laughs it usually says “Goofy Laugh” or when Hedonsimbot on Futurama laughs it says “Airy Laugh”.
There are a couple ways of doing closed captioning. Most stations farm it out.
The cheap way to do it, when the modem lines are working correctly, is to have all the scripts that roll to teleprompter also go to closed captioning. If the anchor actually says something else, the CC will have the original script. If there’s anything live, the computers won’t pick it up. This is usually done for inserts, cut-ins, newsbreaks, etc…
For live shows (like your 6 pm news) there’s a person listening in and transcribing the show directly-- just like a court stenographer (if those actually still exist anywhere )
At the gym, I sometimes watch the TVs while pedalling in place, and I’m amazed to see the captioning errors on soap operas. Those are pre-filmed, so I don’t understand why they can’t get them right.
It’s understandable that live coverage will often yield errors. My favorite was in the last election, when George Bush was referred to as the “Republican canned bait.”