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History
of Closed
Captioning - The first use of closed captioning on American
television according its Wikipedia entry was on March 16, 1980. Sears
had developed and sold the Telecaption
Adapter, a decoding unit that
could be connected to a standard television set. According to the
National Captioning Institute, the first programs seen with captioning
that Sunday evening were the ABC Sunday Night Movie, Disney's Wonderful
World on NBC, and Masterpiece Theatre on PBS. The captioned Disney
feature, showing at 7:00 pm EST, was the film Son of Flubber, while the
ABC movie at 9:00 EST was Semi-Tough.
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