What is it called when the words are up on the tv screen to read?

I am blanking and cant remember

Answer:
captions
Super-imposed.
They sure are doing a lot of that lately! Now we have to watch commercials during the program too! Very annoying!
Or are you talking about closed caption?
closed captioned for the hearing impaired
In UK we call them 'subtitles'.
Display, Subtitles.
captions or subtitles
Closed-Captioning
Captions, Closed Captions or Subtitles usually.

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