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News from the National Captioning Institute, Inc.

Date: March 15, 2005

Contact (West): Elissa Sarna

818-238-0068 (V/TTY)

Contact (East): Ezra Escamilla

703-917-7600 (V/TTY)

Email: mail@ncicap.org

Web site: www.ncicap.org

What's New in Network Television

NCI provides Captioning services for new television programming

For 25 years, NCI has consistently delivered the highest quality captioning services for network programming. NCI’s three production facilities in Vienna, VA, Burbank, CA and Dallas, TX along with highly skilled staff provide the quick turnaround times, flexibility and reliability demanded by network television. New shows and new seasons are continuously being added to NCI’s production schedules. NCI is providing real-time captioning for the new NBC series The Contender and CBS’s The Amazing Race 7. Other new shows captioned by NCI’s off-line production facilities include MTV’s Wildboyz, the fourth season of FX’s The Shield and Hallmark Channel’s Friday Night Mysteries.

What’s this? NCI and Rocky Balboa are set to have a boxing match? No, not really but they do have a lot in common. NCI, in association with Mark Burnett Productions, is captioning The Contender, a new reality show on NBC that will give one athlete the chance to become a boxing great. The show follows 16 aspiring boxers from training camp through an evolving series of ring challenges and boxing matches with the final victor claiming a $1 million prize. Hosted by Sylvester Stallone of Rocky fame, The Contender will give viewers a firsthand look into the real-life hopes, triumphs and defeats of each contestant.

Those outrageous animal lovers are back in the wilds, and NCI is right there with them, sort of. MTV’s Wildboyz is an action/adventure show spearheaded by its two stars, Chris Pontius and Steve-O. In each episode, the boys travel afar to exotic lands of wonder, mystery and intrigue as America's foremost ambassadors of absurd goodwill. Engaging in close cultural encounters with a diversity of dangerous wildlife and native peoples, Chris and Steve-O discover just how far off the evolutionary mark they may actually be.

Back in Los Angeles, FX Network’s The Shield is back for its 4th season, and NCI is riding in the front seat for all the action-packed drama. The series plays out in a tough, morally ambiguous world in which the line between good and bad is crossed every day. In this season, highly acclaimed actress Glenn Close joins the cast and is poised to change the gray area in which most cops think they reside.

The race is on as CBS brings you the 7th season of The Amazing Race. Once again 11 teams of two race around the world for a cash prize of $1 million. The teams travel all over the world to complete assigned tasks. In most legs, the last team to arrive at the pit stop is eliminated. Find out who runs out of breath weekly and who will be crowned the winner.

Who “done” it? Well NCI of course, but we’re innocent until proven guilty. NCI and The Hallmark Channel, team up to bring you Friday Night Mysteries. Follow along as each of three different detectives take you through four different mysteries, asking you that same question. In Mystery Woman, Kellie Martin stars as a bookstore owner and amateur sleuth whose history of crime novels helps her solve real-life crimes. McBride stars John Larroquette as a tough-minded cop turned attorney who uses skills as a detective to place himself at the scene of the crime and solve the case. Lea Thompson stars as a soccer mom with a secret life as government operative Jane Doe. Help solve the crimes and enhance your sleuthing once a week on The Hallmark Channel.

For more information about NCI’s Captioning Services, click here.

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About NCI
NCI is headquartered in the Washington, DC metropolitan area (Vienna, VA) and also has production facilities in Burbank, CA; Dallas, TX; and London, England. The nonprofit National Captioning Institute is the global captioning leader, supplying the highest quality captioning and related services for broadcast and cable television, home video and DVD, and government and corporate video programming.

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