Their excuse does not cut it with me and they would not need to have people caption the program. which apparently is cost prohibitive as I am sure the master copy that Ten has would have the captions of which WIN could have sourced within the affiliate agreement costs rather then employ someone to caption the program. It seems to be very lazy on WIN’s part. I assume Shepparton wasn’t the only affected region and WIN should have been breached in every region and fined accordingly.
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If a program that has been shown on the primary channel with captions then any repeat on a multichannel must include captions. WIN was totally at fault.
However, The Big Bang Theory captions from the US would surely be available to Ten so it is just pure laziness that they were not shown (?).
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Ah ok thanks. I understand now.
When WIN was a Nine affiliate it aired original episodes with Closed Captioning on its main channel.
So when BBT was repeated on a WIN Multichannel (now under Ten affiliation) it must still air the episodes with CC because the episodes originally aired on the main channel all those years ago.
So one of two things. WIN should be asking Ten for the CC versions to come through the master feed or WIN replaces BBT episodes with The Sullivan’s 
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Depends on whether there’s an additional cost to Ten of getting a supplied (US English) caption feed. If captions aren’t on Ten’s broadcast, then obviously it is not part of their rights package for that program.
That’s not how the system works, breaches are recorded for the market where a viewer complaint is made.
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I would be very surprised if Ten didn’t have a captioned version they just didn’t use it because they didn’t have to for their broadcast.
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There’s no reason I can think of for the networks to not provide the captions if they are provided. Obviously, there’s a tangible obstacle to that as these shows did have captions previously. I’m sure Big Bang’s captions (broadcast on Nine) were from WGBH or whatever they are called in the US.
Ten obviously haven’t got them as part of their package from WB.
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My Samsung mobile phone can create decent live captions of whatever is playing on the screen.
With technology improving all the time, WIN and Ten have no valid excuse.
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WIN just didn’t do their cover up on a 10 program advertisement… Is this win forgetting to insert mappy or are they giving up on 10 coverups because its close to affiliation swap?
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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: Regional Affiliation Swap 2021
SIDECAR: Officially still WGBH, but they now brand as GBH.
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I thought we already established that he visits this site, hence blue mappy.
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GBH, as in Grievous Bodily Harm? Yikes.
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As in WGBH - the GBH stands for Great Blue Hill, where the transmitter was originally located.
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I think that’s more of a British/Commonwealth phrase. Doesn’t really exist in the States (to my knowledge).
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I was up in Boston recently and was a little shocked when the radio station kept referring to itself as GBH.
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Listeners have referred to it as GBH for a long time, but the change means everyone’s saying it now.
I kinda wish call letters were played up more in Australia, but everything everywhere’s been networked to heck.
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True. They even talked about it on-air one day. It’s just odd because I’m obviously not a Bostonian, and I’ve always referred to it by its call sign.
I wish call signs were still a thing in Australia, but there’s no legal enforcement of it and much less signal overlap to require it.
The station transmissions over here also have a smaller coverage range. Less than an hour out of NYC and a few of my favourite stations drop out.
(Yes, I realise I’m really off topic now)
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Yes K-Rock could use their callsign 3CAT for AFL broadcasts, why choose that as a call sign and not make use of it?
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Whenever I hear the intro to this song, I keep thinking of the WIN production closer:
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