Heck, I leave CC on all the time, even as a native speaker. There are enough mumbled lines or poor audio or varying volume (thanks a lot, Comcast) to make it useful.  I found &quot;The Following&quot; to be one show I relied on captioning <i>a lot</i>.<p>I bet it would be helpful for children learning to read, too, with the constant matching of text with corresponding dialog or narration.<p>It&#x27;s a funny metric for engineering sloppiness as well.  For example, many programs (especially sports) make poor choices with respect to placement of the CC lines; most major sports networks end up covering the scoreboard insert with CC, for example.<p>One bizarre botch going on now is that our local CBS affiliate (KPIX) is <i>sending captioning from the wrong program</i> in the 10PM hour more often than not -- clearly a news program.  Sometimes, it will be back to the correct show upon return from a commercial break, then fail back again later. It&#x27;s happened the last 2 weeks in a row during Elementary, for sure.  Anybody else seen this?