Why does a program appear on one channel with captions and is repeated on another channel without captions?
Once a program is captioned, then the captions should stay with that program for rebroadcast-unless the program has been edited. Any changes to a program will affect the captions. In some cases, a captioned program is aired on network television and later rebroadcast on cable. However, the cable version may appear without captions. In this case, the new program provider altered the program, perhaps to fit it within a specific time slot or to add commercial breaks. This adjustment changed the time-coded caption data, preventing the captions from appearing. To correct this problem for future broadcasts, the programmer must have the captions reformatted (or edited and re-timed). It also is possible that the new program provider received uncaptioned master videotape and was not aware that a captioned version was available. This may be the case with some uncaptioned home videos of programs that were broadcast with captions. When NCI learns that a program or series that was previously captio
