Signs And Signals Week: Happy Birthday To Closed Captioned Television

This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about signs, captions and other adaptations. In this episode from March 2021, we mark the day in 1980 when the major broadcast networks began regularly providing closed captioning for their shows, serving Deaf viewers along with hearing ones. Plus: some fans of The Mandalorian create a 46 foot long, 13 foot high replica of the main character’s spaceship, the Razor Crest.How Deaf Advocates Won the Battle for Closed Captioning and Changed the Way Americans Watch TV (Time)Closed captioning (Quartz)Star Wars fans ‘land’ Mandalorian’s Razor Crest spaceship in Russia (South China Morning Post)Let’s join forces on Patreon like Mando and Carl Weathers do