Source: www.cablefax.com --- Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Many Baseball fans took note of the touching rendition of the “The Star Spangled Banner” at the start of Tuesday’s AL wild-card game on ESPN by Broadway star Aaron Tveit. It came after a moment of silence for the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. But those with closed captioning on might have been scratching their heads over whether there was a protest taking place during the national anthem. As Tveit sang, the captioning incorrectly displayed the words “oer the land of the knee – of free” in the last line of the song. ESPN said it was assured by the third-party captioning service it uses that it was an honest mistake. It certainly was ill-timed given the recent controversy surrounding NFL players kneeling during the anthem. “Our closed captioning is handled by a third-party company, NCI, that has done good work for us for many years. NCI assures us that this was an honest, unintentional mistake and they attempted to correct it in real time,” an ESPN spokesperson said. In a statement, NCI apologized to ESPN and viewers for what it called an unfortunate error. “This error occurred because the steno captioner mistakenly hit one extra key on the Stenotype machine when trying to caption the word ‘free.’ The error was quickly corrected. This error was absolutely not intentional,” NCI said. The error seemed to go unnoticed for the most part. A Cablefax editor was contacted by a viewer who saw it, and found a few users on Twitter ...
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