Villages TV adds closed captioning — at last

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Trouble in Paradise.... "Deaf Villagers are thrilled at this," wrote Louis Schwarz, a deaf lawyer who fought for the captions.
The massive retirement community of nearly 100,000 people has its own TV station called Villages News Network. It leases Channel 2 from Comcast and tapes 15 minutes of cheerful "news" a day, running it over and over until a fresh segment starts the next day. It also airs club news and recreation events on Channel 20 and weather on Channel 99.
The Villages was supposed to offer closed captioning, which would cost about $65 a day, depending on whether the channel performed the service or paid a company to do it.  The Villages whined in documents filed in 2008 with the Federal Communications Commission that it already was losing $1.4 million annually on VNN, and The Villages owners threatened to close the channel if the FCC imposed the "undue burden" of captioning.
This claim was hilarious, given the lifestyle and fabulous wealth of the family that owns VNN and given the purpose of the channel, which is to keep up the fiction that life is perfect in The Villages and to keep real — by definition bad — news away from the delicate ears of residents.  Never mind that many of those ears have hearing trouble. After all, becoming hard of hearing is a condition that increases with age, and this is a retirement community.
The argument posed by Villages lawyer Erick Langenbrunner should have left the Morse family, owner of The Villages, slinking off in shame.

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