Tegna Station Cuts Ties with Closed-Captioning Company

Last week, FTVLive told you how during a report on KVUE about the Austin bombings the closed captioning text included a typographical error in which the words “this monkey” appeared in a sentence about 17-year-old bombing victim Draylen Mason. 

The station quickly released a statement saying it wasn't their fault. "We want to be clear that this typographical error was NOT made by any employee of KVUE. We contract with VITAC -- an outside company -- to live caption our newscasts. We are taking this mistake very seriously and we are heartsick about this terrible error." 

The Tegna station now says that they have cut ties with VITAC.

No word on what company they are using now. 

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