A method and system for providing broadcast captions is disclosed which includes a tuner for receiving a broadcast signal, a decoder for stripping text data relating to the captions from the broadcast signal, and a transmission server for transmitting the captions to the device for display on the device. The device may be a mobile telephone (30) or a computer (40). The system and method may also provide images for display with the captions and may also present auxiliary captions in the form of advertisements for display when advertisements are being broadcast in the television broadcast and no captions are present. The data relating to the captions and images may be transmitted from the transmission server (20) by the Internet solely or by the Internet (22) and a wireless carrier (24).