conversion of video crawls to speech

FCC Extends Deadline for TV Stations to Convert Emergency Information in Textual Crawls to Audio on SAP Channels

By David Oxenford|2015-05-27T10:41:23-05:00May 27th, 2015|Legal News|

The FCC yesterday granted extensions requested by the National Association of Broadcasters and by the American Cable Association of the deadlines for implementation of obligations to convert emergency information conveyed in text (usually in on-screen crawls) on television broadcasts into audio to be broadcast on a TV station’s SAP channel (the second audio programming channel… Continue Reading

NAB Requests Extension of May Obligation for TV Stations to Convert Emergency Information from Text to Speech

By David Oxenford|2015-03-31T21:43:19-05:00March 31st, 2015|Legal News|

The FCC two years ago adopted a rule requiring that television stations that provide emergency information visually (e.g. through open captions or crawls), outside of news programming, convert that emergency information into audio and run that audio on SAP channels (secondary audio programming channels – usually used for Spanish language translations of English-language programs). That… Continue Reading