Also, Early Today replaces NBC News at Sunrise. This past spring, Today celebrated its 10th anniversary of being captioned. NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press complete the line-up of NBC News programs. The grant for CNN Headline News covers the captioning of 5,738 hours per year, an increase of two hours per weekday above current levels. CBS Morning News also receives funding support for captioning under this grant.
News programming continues to be the most important type of programming to deaf audiences.
To commemorate this milestone, a plaque will be presented to Jeff Zucker, executive producer of the Today show. That innovation has now become standard for most national and local news programs. Deaf people and other caption viewers have become so much better informed because NBC made this landmark TV program accessible to them. Indeed, when Today began captioning, the only other captioned NBC News programs were NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press . Special reports were never captioned.