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If a church broadcasts the word of God on TV without closed captions, it risks incurring the wrath of the FCC. Some 300 small- to medium-sized churches can expect letters from the commission within the next few days explaining why their closed captioning exemptions were lifted for TV shows like “Power in the Word” and “Producing Kingdom Citizens.” The FCC has been mailing the letters for the past few days to churches from Maine to California, explaining that the hundreds of exemptions are now rescinded and giving the programmers 90 days to reapply. The churches were granted FCC exemptions from...

[Yesterday] on San Diego 6 News at 10 pm, the local news channel presented a story on Valentine's Day cards and packages that are currentlly being prepared for U.S. Military troops by individual civilians. During this segment a young lady read a sample card that would be sent to one of the troops. The closed captioning service, used by the hearing impaired, accurately displayed what was being read until it came to the words "God bless you." For some reason, those three words were left out ...

A fellow UFC fan emailed me about the greatest Closed Captioned faux pas ever in the history of UFC captioning, or so I believe. I honestly somehow believe that this "faux pas" closed captioning was done on purpose with malice when Matt Hughes was introduced to the crowd as "Saddam Hussein." The email sender, Dave, sent me a few pictures of the Tivo'ed shots of the CC faux pas.