Pepsi Center agrees to open captioning for concerts
The Denver arena is to introduce always-on captions for its scoreboards, as a class-action lawsuit over equality legislation nears its end
News By IQ | 10 January 2018
Pepsi Center, the Denver arena sued last year over its lack of scoreboard captions for the hard of hearing, has agreed to demands to provide open captioning of all aural content at sports matches and concerts.
In a proposed consent decree submitted to the US district court for Colorado, arena owner/operator Kroenke Arena Company agreed to provide open – or always-on – captioning for all content spoken over the arena’s PA system, whether live or pre-recorded.
The class-action lawsuit’s lead…