Noise Cancelling Headphones on Trains

I miss lots of announcements because of noise cancelling headphones. I think there should be a little ticker or something on the screen with written things for people who aren't listening to the announcements. They shouldn't be depending on us hearing announcements. My wife gets really angry at me. She's like one day something really important is going to happen and you're not going to hear it because of those bloody earphones. But I'm not willing to part with them, but I do want the important information. Happens to be on trains too. And you caught me at a bad time because my most recent pilot on his way back to the UK was a real chatty-caffy