About the role
Division: Media Services
Work Status: Full Time
Location: Toronto, Ont (Hybrid)
About the Role:
Corus Entertainment is looking for a Live Closed Captioner reporting into the Reporting to the live Closed Captioning Supervisor. Working on a team to cover a variety of shifts which vary between an early start (4am) as well as shifts that go into the early morning, weekends and holidays, The position will begin with a shift of 4pm-Midnight. Live closed captioners anticipate what will be spoken in live events, build accurate topic models, assess the quality of ASR outputs, and make adjustments daily for live programs airing coast-to-coast on Corus entertainment’s Global stations, as well as others within Corus Entertainment’s Quay Media Services division.
You will contribute by:
- Stay up-to-date with all forms of news and arrive before events to research and prepare.
- Stay up-to-date with all possible weather or travel issues that could impact commute time and
- adjust routines regularly to ensure punctuality & reliability for live events.
- Ability to cover client requests, scheduling and technical issues during eight-hour shift.
- Extensive knowledge of encoders, client schedules, Live CC ASR troubleshooting, working with engineering and vendors to fix issues in a timely fashion.
- Excellent verbal and communication skills to be able to answer internal/external client calls and emails.
- Must be willing to work onsite with a positive attitude and respect for a thriving and bustling workspace.
- Ability to provide live closed captioning via respeak technology for on-air broadcast events considered an asset.
- Constantly refine topic models and techniques to achieve 98% or higher NER scoring accuracy.
- Potential for weekend & holiday work requirements.
- Have the ability to work in a team environment or independently while being flexible and open to learning new experiences in a fast-paced changing environment.
- Contributions to offline ASR transcriptions and contributing to offline closed captioning workflow as required between live events.
Skills and experience you will bring:
- College Diploma or University Degree considered an asset.
- Excellent researching ability to anticipate spoken nouns, and anticipate how an ASR engine will evaluate the phonetics of those spoken nouns and build models accordingly.
- Excellent English spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Ability to punctuate in real-time during situations where speakers are speaking rapidly considered an asset.
- A minimum of 98.0 NER utilizing optimized ASR.
- Previous closed captioning, live closed captioning, court reporting, transcription, respeaking or on-air journalism experience from a recognized company considered an asset.
- Experience with ASR technology considered an asset.
- Detail-oriented and highly reliable.
- French language writing, respeaking, and proofreading ability seen as a considerable asset.
- Technical proficiency with basic audio path design and to engage with and troubleshoot basic sound mixers.
- Updating your topic models daily to constantly improve quality and reduce delays.
- Basic working knowledge with Computers and MS Office Suites.
- Ability to help department as required on respeak transcripts or offline closed captioning files between live events.
Application Deadline: October 3rd, 2025
About Corus Entertainment
Corus is Canada’s leading pure play media and content company, developing and delivering high-quality content and brands across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company’s portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 35 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, animation software, technology and media services.
Corus’ roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY®, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX.
Corus is an established creator of globally distributed content through Nelvana animation studio, Corus Studios, and children’s book publishing house Kids Can Press.
Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content with a stable of globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs.
Established in 2015, Corus Studios is a premium content studio that develops, produces and distributes a wide array of original lifestyle, unscripted and factual content globally.
Toon Boom Animation’s award-winning software is the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding providing the artistic freedom to create in any style and efficiently publish anywhere.
Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher with a catalog of over 700 picture books, nonfiction and fiction titles for children and young adults.
Corus also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, and in 2019, extended its reach to millennials through new and ongoing partnerships with Complex and Twitter, expansion into short-form content with so.da originals and the acquisition of Kin.
About the role
Division: Media Services
Work Status: Full Time
Location: Toronto, Ont (Hybrid)
About the Role:
Corus Entertainment is looking for a Live Closed Captioner reporting into the Reporting to the live Closed Captioning Supervisor. Working on a team to cover a variety of shifts which vary between an early start (4am) as well as shifts that go into the early morning, weekends and holidays, The position will begin with a shift of 4pm-Midnight. Live closed captioners anticipate what will be spoken in live events, build accurate topic models, assess the quality of ASR outputs, and make adjustments daily for live programs airing coast-to-coast on Corus entertainment’s Global stations, as well as others within Corus Entertainment’s Quay Media Services division.
You will contribute by:
- Stay up-to-date with all forms of news and arrive before events to research and prepare.
- Stay up-to-date with all possible weather or travel issues that could impact commute time and
- adjust routines regularly to ensure punctuality & reliability for live events.
- Ability to cover client requests, scheduling and technical issues during eight-hour shift.
- Extensive knowledge of encoders, client schedules, Live CC ASR troubleshooting, working with engineering and vendors to fix issues in a timely fashion.
- Excellent verbal and communication skills to be able to answer internal/external client calls and emails.
- Must be willing to work onsite with a positive attitude and respect for a thriving and bustling workspace.
- Ability to provide live closed captioning via respeak technology for on-air broadcast events considered an asset.
- Constantly refine topic models and techniques to achieve 98% or higher NER scoring accuracy.
- Potential for weekend & holiday work requirements.
- Have the ability to work in a team environment or independently while being flexible and open to learning new experiences in a fast-paced changing environment.
- Contributions to offline ASR transcriptions and contributing to offline closed captioning workflow as required between live events.
Skills and experience you will bring:
- College Diploma or University Degree considered an asset.
- Excellent researching ability to anticipate spoken nouns, and anticipate how an ASR engine will evaluate the phonetics of those spoken nouns and build models accordingly.
- Excellent English spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Ability to punctuate in real-time during situations where speakers are speaking rapidly considered an asset.
- A minimum of 98.0 NER utilizing optimized ASR.
- Previous closed captioning, live closed captioning, court reporting, transcription, respeaking or on-air journalism experience from a recognized company considered an asset.
- Experience with ASR technology considered an asset.
- Detail-oriented and highly reliable.
- French language writing, respeaking, and proofreading ability seen as a considerable asset.
- Technical proficiency with basic audio path design and to engage with and troubleshoot basic sound mixers.
- Updating your topic models daily to constantly improve quality and reduce delays.
- Basic working knowledge with Computers and MS Office Suites.
- Ability to help department as required on respeak transcripts or offline closed captioning files between live events.
Application Deadline: October 3rd, 2025
About Corus Entertainment
Corus is Canada’s leading pure play media and content company, developing and delivering high-quality content and brands across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company’s portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 35 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, animation software, technology and media services.
Corus’ roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY®, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX.
Corus is an established creator of globally distributed content through Nelvana animation studio, Corus Studios, and children’s book publishing house Kids Can Press.
Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content with a stable of globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs.
Established in 2015, Corus Studios is a premium content studio that develops, produces and distributes a wide array of original lifestyle, unscripted and factual content globally.
Toon Boom Animation’s award-winning software is the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding providing the artistic freedom to create in any style and efficiently publish anywhere.
Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher with a catalog of over 700 picture books, nonfiction and fiction titles for children and young adults.
Corus also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, and in 2019, extended its reach to millennials through new and ongoing partnerships with Complex and Twitter, expansion into short-form content with so.da originals and the acquisition of Kin.