Closed Captioning Certificates

All programming produced and distributed by Arizona PBS (“KAET”) complies with the closed captioning requirements established by the Federal Communications Commission as embodied in 47 C.F.R. § 79.1, including regulations concerning closed captioning quality.

Programming provided by KAET complies with these regulations by either:

(i) satisfying the caption quality standards set forth in 47 C.F.R. § 79.1(j)(2);
(ii) adopting and following the “Video Programmer Best Practices” set forth in 47 C.F.R.§ 79.1(k)(1); or
(iii) being subject to one or more of the captioning exemptions set forth in 47 C.F.R.§ 79.1(d), including programming for which the audio is in a language other than English or Spanish and that is not scripted programming that can be captioned using the “electronic newsroom” technique; interstitial material, promotional announcements and public service announcements that are 10 minutes or less in duration; and/or programming that consists primarily of non-vocal music.

Questions regarding KAET and its captioned program broadcasts and distributions can be directed to our closed captioning contact:

Johnna Buttrick
Senior Customer Service Specialist
Phone: 602-496-2877
Email: [email protected]

Mail to:
Arizona PBS
Viewer Services
555 N. Central Ave., Suite 500
Phoenix, AZ 85004

• Closed-Captioning Quality Certification 3-20-2015 (PDF)
• University of Illinois Closed Captioning Statement (PDF)
• Captioning Certification ’15-2 (PDF)
• LNS Captioning Statement of FCC Compliance Realtime 2015 (PDF)
• Statement of FCC Compliance Post-Production Captioning (PDF)
• NETA Closed Captioning Certificate (PDF)
• PBS Closed Captioning Certification
• American Public Television Closed Captioning
• BBC Programs Closed Captioning Certification (PDF)
• Executive Program Services (PDF)
• Caption Associates Quality Statement (PDF)
• Southwest Living Closed Captioning Certification (PDF)
• Certificate of Captioning KAET (PDF)
• Caption Colorado Captioning Standards (PDF)
• CCP-FCC Quality Standards Certificate (PDF)
• Rev Quality Standards Certificate (PDF)
• Dynamic Captioning Compliance Document (PDF)

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