About Florida Captioning Services
Florida Captioning Services (FCS) was founded in 1989 in order to meet the captioning needs of the Orlando, Florida NBC affiliate, WESH-TV, which was the first network affiliate in the state to caption local news programming. FCS has continued to grow, providing real-time captioning throughout the nation and around the world.
As one of the first 100 captioners in the United States, FCS CEO Peggy Belflower has been a pioneer in the industry. Peggy began her career as a certified official court reporter and freelance deposition reporter. She is a past president of the Florida Court Reporters Association (FCRA), is a Fellow of the Academy of Professional Reporters of the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA), and has certified at the NCRA's highest level of accuracy and speed, the Registered Merit Reporter. In 1990, she received the Emily Mann Distinguished Service Award from the FCRA for her outstanding contributions and service to the profession. Her captioning consistently averages 99.9% and while certified at 260 words per minute, she has been timed at over 300 words per minute.
Our team of expert captioners are equally dedicated and skilled. Every captioner is nationally certified at high accuracy, speed, and varied content. We have combined caption experience of 55+ years. All FCS captioners were first highly qualified real-time (immediate transcript) court reporters before accepting the challenge of real-time captioning.
FCS has one or more experts in the following areas: local, state, national, and international news; weather and sports; religious programming and church services; government broadcasts and emergency broadcast captioning; college classes and graduations; talk shows; video conferencing; financial reporting; and stockholder meetings.
We are ready to assess your project, event, or programming no matter the size; whether a one-time event or long-term contract and anything in between. We are a full-service real-time captioning services company.