CBC Risk Management & Mitigation 3

Question 1

A captioner's software crashes 20 minutes into a 2-hour live broadcast. Which pre-established protocol minimizes audience caption blackout?

Accepted Answer

Activating a pre-loaded secondary caption workstation on a separate machine

Answer

A warm-standby second workstation can take over in seconds, minimizing blackout, unlike other options that take minutes or longer.

Question 2

Which scenario represents a 'single point of failure' risk in a captioner's home studio setup?

Accepted Answer

Relying on one ISP with no cellular backup

Answer

A single ISP with no redundancy means any ISP-side outage immediately halts caption delivery with no fallback.

Question 3

What does 'latency risk' specifically refer to in live broadcast captioning?

Accepted Answer

Risk that captions will appear too long after the spoken words for viewers to follow

Answer

Excessive caption latency detaches text from speech, reducing comprehension value for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers.

Question 4

A captioner receives a last-minute assignment for a high-profile political debate with no prep materials. The BEST risk response is:

Accepted Answer

Accept and request a 30-second delay buffer to allow for corrections

Answer

A delay buffer allows real-time review and correction, directly mitigating the accuracy risk caused by lack of preparation time.

Question 5

A captioner works across three simultaneous client accounts. The PRIMARY scheduling risk this creates is:

Accepted Answer

Double-booking or overlap conflicts causing a broadcast to go uncaptioned

Answer

Managing multiple client schedules without a conflict-checking system raises the probability of booking two live events at the same time.

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