Company History

Caption Colorado was founded in 1991. It began with one local Denver station (KCNC-TV) for which it provided free realtime captioning service for one year for the benefit of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community in Colorado. Caption Colorado secured its first paying customer (WRC-TV in Washington, DC) one year later. It was at that time that Caption Colorado led the realtime captioning industry to a radically new low rate of $120 per hour. In the early 90's the closed captioning industry was a substantially subsidized industry with rates ranging from $400 to $1,000 per hour for realtime captioning. As a result of its competitive rate, Caption Colorado was able to secure a large portion of the growth in the industry over the next nine years and is now one of America's largest providers of realtime closed captioning services by a wide margin.

Today Caption Colorado covers nearly 500 events a day by offering realtime and offline captioning and Internet Text Streaming for:

  • News
  • Weather Emergencies and Breaking News
  • Live Sporting Events
  • Television Series
  • Feature Films
  • Educational Programming
  • Conventions and Conferences
  • Event Centers, Stadiums and Arenas
  • Foreign Language programming
  • Corporate meetings, training, seminars
  • Voice Relay Captioning for Teleconferences
  • Web casts
  • Investor Relations calls