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

• Real-time Spanish captioning with mixed case and accent marks: Deportes (CNN en Español), 2001