The Grand Ole Opry, the Mecca of country music in Nashville, Tennessee, will begin offering giant caption boards during their evening shows to accommodate the hearing impaired. This was after it was determined that just playing louder wasn't enough.
The General Manager of the Opry has already apologized for not installing the hardware sooner. She said she just heard about it.
Several technical problems had to be overcome before the first captioned show went on. First and foremost: displaying the words in English or some sort of HeeHaw dialect. It was a major decision. Country music fans have become used to the accents and dialects of the South and Appalachia. Translating the dialects into English could lead to misunderstandings of lyrics and jokes. But is was decided that if the hard-of-hearing hadn't heard any of this before, then it wouldn't matter now. So the decision was to go to the vernacular and let their hearing friends explain the jokes.
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