A video production facility system may produce closed caption data that
includes text data and timing data. The system may receive script data
for a video program. The system may then determine identifiers for
individual programming events that make up the program. The system may
then produce closed caption data for the program. The closed caption data
may include text data corresponding to the script data, and timing data
provided at locations that correspond to the beginning of each of the
programming events. The timing data may comprise an identifier of the
corresponding programming event. Further timing data may be provided that
marks the ends of programming events, or that marks individual segments
within a programming event. Related embodiments may pertain to systems
that implement such processing. The closed caption data may be
synchronized to a video signal based on the display of corresponding text
by a teleprompter system that is used in the production of the video
program. Timing data may alternatively be provided within the video
signal itself.