I don’t want to pile on the Mets, I really do love ya guys….but good story by Neil Best (yet again) about SNY not offering closed captioning.
Spend the money guys, it’s the right thing to do ($100,000 for a season of games? You have it.)
Legally, the network has done nothing wrong. The FCC provides new channels burdened with start-up costs four years to institute captioning, so SNY is in the clear through March 16, 2010.
But captioning is more than an improvement for the deaf; it is a necessity, as has become clear in the numerous, impassioned e-mails I have received from those affected since SNY launched.
“Businesses like the Mets should not be doing [only] what they are required to do but should be offering good public service,” said Janice Schacter, chairwoman of the Hearing Access Program.
Also let’s not forget that SNY is the Mets. Yeah the ownership is a bid muddy with some partners but it’s not like Sterling Enterprises has no influence with the baseball team nor the network:
For clarity:
SportsNet New York (SNY), which launched in the spring of 2006, is New York’s new regional sports network founded by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, Time Warner and Comcast (From sny’s website)
| Fred Wilpon and his Sterling Equities partners acquired Nelson Doubleday’s 50 percent in the team and became the sole owners of the club. (from mets.com) | Aug. 23, 2002 |
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Hi.
Has anyone else noticed that the picture quality of the Mets games on both SNY and WPIX has deteriorated this year? I don’t know if it’s camera positions at Citifield, or something else- but it is pronounced!
The Mets started closed-captioning on May 1 and went into a 7-game winning streak. Tonight’s game was not captioned, and they lost. Go figure.