The Media Access Group at WGBH, a non-profit service of the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, will provide both closed captioning and live description of George W. Bush's presidential inauguration for the PBS presentation of Inauguration 2001, a NewsHour special hosted by Jim Lehrer. Captioning will be provided by The Caption Center and description will be provided by Descriptive Video ServiceR - both services of the Media Access Group at WGBH in Boston. The Media Access Group at WGBH will also provide closed captioning for the CBS News inaugural coverage. Hosted by Jim Lehrer of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the PBS presentation will feature political analysts Mark Shields and Paul Gigot, as well as a panel of political historians, including Doris Kearns Goodwin, Haynes Johnson, Michael Beschloss, Richard Norton Smith and Roger Wilkins.
Closed captions display spoken dialogue as text on the television screen.
Members of the Media Access Group's collective staff represent the leading resources and experts in their fields. Funding for closed captioning and descriptive narration of Inauguration 2001 is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.