Captioning Firsts For NCI
- Closed-captioned programs: The ABC Sunday Night Movie (ABC), The Wonderful World of Disney (NBC), Masterpiece Theatre (PBS), March 16, 1980
- Children's program: 3-2-1 Contact (PBS), 1980
- Commercial: IBM, 1980
- Home videos: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The China Syndrome, and Chapter Two (RCA/Columbia House Home Video), 1981
- Pay cable series: Bizarre (Showtime), 1981
- Live sports event: The Sugar Bowl, 1982
- Live special: The Academy Awards, 1982
- National newscast: World News Tonight (ABC), 1982
- Daytime serial: Search for Tomorrow, 1986
- Corporately funded captioning of a TV series: Family Ties by Kellogg Company, 1985
- Daytime talk show: The Oprah Winfrey Show, 1986
- Game shows: Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, 1987
- Congressional floor proceedings: U.S. House of Representatives, 1991
- Home video service in Europe: England, 1992
- Inter-continentally televised event: The U.S. presidential inauguration, to audiences in the United States and England, 1993