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Fox News Channel, MSNBC Seek Exemptions from FCC Audio Descriptions

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Fox News Channel, MSNBC Seek Exemptions from FCC Audio Descriptions

FCC has carve-out for mostly live programming
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While Fox News Channel and MSNBC are undoubtedly happy to be in a list of the top five cable nets by audience, when it comes to one FCC rule, not so much.

Fox News Channel and MSNBC have asked that the FCC exempt them from the list of top five non-broadcast networks. That is because that exempts them from the commission's audio description (formerly "video description) rule, which applies to cable and satellite operators carrying the top five cable channels.

The rules, which stem from the Twenty-First Century Video Communications Accessibility Act, require MVPDs with over 50,000 subs to provide 87.5 hours of audio described programming (narrated descriptions of important visual elements provided for the blind and visually impaired) per quarter of the top five national non-broadcast networks.
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