Closed Captioning 1982

A nifty little space-themed sounder to announce that ABC's next program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

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[vzeu019j]

In the later years, ABC discarded this intro, and simply put the CC icon on the upper-right side of your Television screen when a program was to begin...

[vzeu019j]

There was an earlier version where the CC Icon, was in glowing orange, And the Message(same as this one) had zoomed away from the viewer, Not to mention it has different music as well. Anyways, 5/5!

[eyeh8nbc]

@kargaroc386 You had to buy an external tuner/decoder to see captions in those days- you could get them through the Sears catalog. They were pretty bulky. In the 90s Zenith started including it in some of their TVs, then the FCC required all TVs to have them (reason being they included sound which not everyone could hear, so they should also include caption decoders.)

[vzeu019j]

So was I. I'm telling you though, the CC ID was used earlier than September of 1992.

[VaultMasterDBT]

I was referring to the CC ID that appeared at the start of ABC network programs. The white, 2-D symbol was used there from September '92 onward.

[vzeu019j]

No, actually it was earlier than that(it wasn't 1991 or 92, so I was wrong on that)., it had to be from the 80's, because I saw some promos from then, and it had that 2-D CC id.

[VaultMasterDBT]

September 1992, not 1991.

[vzeu019j]

You're right on the first one. But the second one(the 2D one) actually came out in 1991, not 1993.

[GameShowNetwork]

1986-1995: It was the gold/ruby 3-D closed captioned logo

1993-1996: Alternate Closed Caption logo was the 2D one seen on ABC promos.

[carmesundae]

didabc do also do thiswth happyday and laverne7 shirley