Editing Closed captioning (section)

=== Funding development in New Zealand ===
In 1981, [[TVNZ]] held a [[telethon]] to raise funds for Teletext-encoding equipment used for the creation and editing of text-based broadcast services for the deaf. The service came into use in 1984 with caption creation and importing paid for as part of the public broadcasting fee until the creation of the [[NZ On Air]] taxpayer fund, which is used to provide captioning for NZ On Air content and TVNZ news shows and for conversion of [[EIA-608]] US captions to the preferred [[EBU]] STL format for only [[TVNZ 1]], [[TV 2 (New Zealand)|TV 2]] and [[TV3 (New Zealand)|TV 3]] with archived captions available to [[Four (New Zealand)|FOUR]] and select [[SKY Network Television|Sky]] programming. During the second half of 2012, [[TV3 (New Zealand)|TV3]] and [[Four (New Zealand)|FOUR]] began providing non-Teletext DVB image-based captions on their HD service and used the same format on the satellite service, which has since caused major timing issues in relation to server load and the loss of captions from most SD DVB-S receivers, such as the ones Sky Television provides their customers. As of April 2, 2013, only the Teletext page 801 caption service will remain in use with the informational Teletext non-caption content being discontinued.