Bison Technology

Caption Colorado proprietary Bison Captioning Software System is an “IP” based system. The Bison System offers significant advantages over traditional captioning which uses telephone lines and modems to transport captioned data from the captioners terminal to the television stations decoder.

Caption Colorado’s revolutionary Bison Technology, IP Based, offers complete captioning solutions for all television broadcasts.  The patent pending technology not only ensures quick and accurate connections to a wide variety of delivery platforms but minimizes lost captioning.  This allows significant advantages over traditional captioning, permits our customers’ proof of performance information proving captioning compliance and avoids significant fines for incomplete emergency captioning coverage.  With Bison Technology a customer can order emergency captioning within seconds and will be on the air in the matter of minutes. This high tech platform ensures instant notification to each member of our scheduling staff, over 150 captioners and programming of all closed captioning schedules are confirmed prior to events with a secured log in.  Our staff can respond instantaneously and will automatically be connected to an event to provide captioning.  Bison Technology allows customers the ability to have direct communication with the captioner prior to and during events, full control of the captioning window screen and placement of captions.  Captioners communicate important instructions such as; “please hold over at end of program for extended coverage of an emergency news item” or “the captions are garbled on the screen”.  Caption Colorado is dedicated to work with any customer as a one-stop high tech solution, Bison Technology.