Editing Closed captioning (section)

=== Full-scale closed captioning ===
The National Captioning Institute was created in 1979 in order to get the cooperation of the commercial television networks.<ref name="caphist"/>

The first use of regularly scheduled closed captioning on American television occurred on March 16, 1980.<ref>Gannon, Jack. 1981. ''Deaf Heritage-A Narrative History of Deaf America''. Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf, pp. 384-387</ref> [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] developed the line-21 decoder, a decoding unit that could be connected to a standard television set. This was sold commercially by [[Sears]] under the name Telecaption.<ref>{{cite book|title=Developing Technologies for Television Captioning|page=166|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Developing_Technologies_for_Television_C/h_kEbqTWTjgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=telecaption+adapter+PBS+developed&pg=PA166&printsec=frontcover}}</ref> The first programs seen with captioning were a ''[[Walt Disney anthology series|Disney's Wonderful World]]'' presentation of the film ''[[Son of Flubber]]'' on [[NBC]], an ''[[The ABC Sunday Night Movie|ABC Sunday Night Movie]]'' airing of ''[[Semi-Tough]]'', and ''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]'' on PBS.<ref>"Today on TV", ''Chicago Daily Herald'', March 11, 1980, Section 2-5</ref>

Since 2010 the BBC provides captioning for all programming across all seven of its main broadcast channels [[BBC One]], [[BBC Two]], [[BBC Three]], [[BBC Four]], [[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC]], [[CBeebies]] and [[BBC News (British TV channel)|BBC News]].

[[BBC iPlayer]] launched in 2008 as the first captioned [[video on demand|video-on-demand]] service from a major broadcaster with levels of captioning comparable to those provided on its broadcast channels.