On TV, why is closed captioning always “provided in part by” something, IE a certain company? Why isn’t it just part of broadcasting standards that closed captions need to be present by default?

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On TV, why is closed captioning always “provided in part by” something, IE a certain company? Why isn’t it just part of broadcasting standards that closed captions need to be present by default?

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I’m british so asking for clarification:

are you asking why they say “captions provided by ‘Captioning International'” or whatever? Because that’s just… a credit for doing a job. The production company will outsource doing the subtitling to a company that knows how to do it and they get a credit at the end just like everyone else.