Broadcast and Entertainment

It’s that time of year again!

National Captioning Institute is excitedly heading to Las Vegas April 6-9 for the National Association of Broadcasters Show 2025. It convenes decision-makers from around the globe, offering valuable insights, cutting-edge tools, and innovative technologies that enable storytelling at scale.

With 163 countries and territories represented at the event, we cannot wait to show others the power of accessible media solutions. We're anticipating many discussions on sports integration, subtitles and dubbing, automatic captioning in settings from the classroom to the stadium, and our perfected audio description workflow.

If your team is attending the event, set up a time to chat with us in person! If you're not going or are too excited to wait, contact us right now on how our services will benefit your individual project, news network, or school district!

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We Know Entertainment.

Program providers have counted on The National Captioning Institute, Inc. (NCI) to provide real-time and prerecorded captions for television since 1979. We have partnerships with major newscasters and broadcast/media networks across the country.

NCI offers a multitude of captioning services for the broadcast, media, and entertainment industry, including live automated captioning solutions, 24/7 standby services for breaking news, seamless captioner handoffs to ensure continuous captions, and the ability to caption through multiple encoders simultaneously.

As guidelines change, you can also rest assured we’ll lead you through FCC Caption Quality requirements.

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NCI Has a Solution for All Your Media Needs:

Media Services

Automated Captioning above a futuristic abstract graphics in blues and oranges.

Secure Live Automated Captioning optimized for newsrooms in 45+ languages with MOS and newsroom script integration, fail-safes, file exports, and more.

Live Captioning above a stadium of soccer fans.

Real-time captioning in English and Spanish for your live events, news broadcasts, sporting events, breaking news, emergency coverage, and press briefings.

Prerecorded Captioning text above image of butterly with the closed captions "the butterfly's wings contain millions of colored scales"

Offline captioning and subtitling with quick turnaround time for any of your prerecorded programming needs.

After four decades in the business, NCI also has a captioning library of thousands of titles that can be reformatted at a lower cost than original captioning.

Audio Descriptions text against close up image of a child's hands exploring braille book.

Audio description for all of your media content — including sitcoms, dramas, movies, children’s programming, music videos, and commercials among others.

Caption Integration text above smiling woman holding a web conference.

Real-time captioning, Recapd delivered to your live webcasts, streaming services, mobile apps, and online video clips through Recapd’s robust, real-time web captioning solution.

**Optimized for Media & Entertainment**

Local Newscasts
Live Shows and Events
TV Networks & Cable
Content Producers
Online Video Awards Ceremonies
Video on Demand
Digital Media
Over-the-Top (OTT) media

Perfected for Sports

Stadium Events
Live Games
Sports Streaming for web
Studio Programming
Commentary
Award Shows

What's the story behind NCI’s dynamic group of sports aficionados who just happen to also be CAPTIONING CHAMPS? Take a look!

Let’s Collaborate! Contact us today for more information, a quote, and/or captioning demo.

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