The National Captioning Institute (NCI)

NCI is a nonprofit company that introduced closed captioning on network television in 1980 and remains the global captioning leader. Services include closed captioning for prerecorded and live video programming; subtitling and language translation services for videos and DVDs; and described video service to make television programming accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. NCI now offers a help desk that is designed to provide information on topics such as the availability of captioned programming, how to resolve problems with displaying captions, accessibility of closed captions in Spanish and on DVD's and home videos.