Summary

The ATSC and CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media are co-sponsoring the DTV Caption Summit, a full-day seminar on March 14, 2001 at WETA in Arlington, Virginia. The event will bring together FCC regulators, standards experts, broadcast equipment suppliers, and consumer electronics manufacturers to address closed captioning requirements for digital television.

Source document circa 2001 preserved as-is

Wednesday, February 28, 2001

DTV Caption Summit!

Sponsored by: ATSC and CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)

March 14, 2001


• Press Release: DTV Caption Summit - March 14 in Washington, DC area (at WETA)


• Program and Hotel information:

• Hotel rooms are available for the night of March 13 at Sheraton Four Points, with shuttle bus service to WETA.

• Call the Sheraton at 703-682-5500 and mention ATSC/WETA for reservations at $99/night.

• Register on-line (Free!):


"DTV CAPTION SUMMIT" TO BE HELD IN WASHINGTON ON MARCH 14th
Meeting to Feature Regulators and Standards Experts

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 27, 2000 -- The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) have joined together to sponsor the "DTV Caption Summit", a full-day seminar to be held on Wednesday, March 14, 2001 at WETA, 2775 Quincy Street, Arlington, Virginia. The Summit will provide the television industry with a comprehensive update on technical standards, federal requirements and equipment development in support of closed captioning for digital television.

The meeting, designed for managers and engineers will include speakers from the disability community, the FCC, standards organizations, broadcast equipment suppliers, and consumer electronics manufacturers. A preliminary agenda and registration information is available on the ATSC website www.atsc.org.

The Advanced Television Systems Committee is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC has approximately 200 member organizations representing the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries.

The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility that works to make media accessible to underserved populations such as disabled persons, minority-language users, and people with low literacy skills. NCAM and its sister organizations, The Caption Center and Descriptive Video ServiceÆ (DVSÆ), make up the Media Access Group of the WGBH Educational Foundation.
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