Caption Colorado Web site wins award for excellence in electronic media

(July 11, 2002) RAPID CITY, SD- Caption Colorado, the nation's leader in real-time media captioning and transcription services, received national recognition for its Web site. www.captioncolorado.com won a top honor at the 2002 AXIEM AWARDS™, an international awards program honoring "absolute excellence in electronic media."

"We finally have a website that accurately represents the magnitude of our abilities, products and services," said Lindsay Polumbus, director of marketing at Caption Colorado. The newly developed Web site, launched in spring of 2002, received the Silver AXIEM™ award as a finalist in the Internet category. The AXIEM AWARDS™ attracted nearly 1500 entries from all 50 states, Australia, Canada, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

The AXIEM AWARDS™ honors those who produce the very best in all forms of electronic media. This is the only award representing the entire electronic media industry. The AXIEM AWARD™ sets the standard of creative communication and production excellence in electronic media. Each entry is judged solely on its own merits against an absolute standard of excellence established for each medium, market, and category.

Caption Colorado partnered with Lundwall Creative (Littleton, CO) to create and develop the Web site. Lundwall is an integrated communications agency, specializing in advertising, design, and Internet services. The agency won three AXIEM AWARDS™.

Providers of real-time, offline and Internet captioning services, Caption Colorado's clients include media giants such as Starz-Encore, ABC, NBC, CBS, Tribune and RealNetworks. Caption Colorado has earned its reputation as the nation's largest provider of real-time captioning services to local and national media markets, captioning for over 90 clients located in the top 35 markets nationwide. Their captioners boast an average 98.5% accuracy rating at 225 words per minute, and they use the preferred method of captioning by deaf and hard-of-hearing communities and the FCC. Visit www.captioncolorado.com for more information.