Red Bee Media Australia has won a competitive bid to supply Special Broadcasting Service Corporation (SBS) with closed captioning services. The win sees SBS renew its agreement with Red Bee Media, who will continue to provide all live captioning services and an agreed amount of offline captioning services to the broadcaster from its leading-edge facility in Rosebery.

The appointment reinforces Red Bee Media’s position as the leading supplier of captioning services to the Australian broadcast industry, with high-profile, high-quality customers including SBS, Nine, Ten, Seven and Showtime.

Chris Howe, Managing Director of Red Bee Media Australia said: “We're delighted that SBS has decided to continue our partnership. This is a great endorsement of how our innovation in new technologies and captioning methods offers an unbeatable service for our clients. After many successful years together, we're very pleased to continue working with a broadcaster with such high quality standards."

Winnie Lai, Manager of Subtitling and Program preparation at SBS added: “We're very happy to have renewed our contract with Red Bee Media to provide this important and valuable service for our Deaf and hearing impaired viewers.”

Red Bee Media is the largest and longest-serving captioning company in Australia and operates from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Red Bee Media also has offices in the UK, France, Germany and Spain.