There is a way to have the best of both worlds. With a combination system, an electronic newsroom captioning option allows the news to be captioned automatically. The station then chooses to have certain reports captioned live by a stenocaptioner. At least one station uses this method, allowing it to caption all its newscasts in the most complete and most economical way. Funding the captioning It will be helpful for you to know how other TV stations have paid for captioning.
Many stations have funding from local corporations.
Some TV stations pay the captioning costs themselves while other stations have received grants from local foundations. Before you approach a TV station, be prepared to show how important captioned local news would be to your community. Collect as much written support as you can. Ask people to send letters to your organization so that you can deliver them in one impressive package to the station. Try to get letters from individuals, organizations, mayors, legislators, community leaders, and prominent business people.