WOAI-TV San Antonio shouldn’t be punished for lack of closed capt...
WOAI-TV San Antonio shouldn’t be punished for lack of closed captions on programming during record flood July 3-6, station said in response to 153 complaints received by FCC. Station said it preempted its regular programming and provided “wall-to-wall” news…
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coverage of emergency situation, although coverage wasn’t fully captioned. Station said portions of newscasts that were scripted were captioned, and it regularly crawled National Weather Service and other advisories on screen, along with other graphics of “vital information.” Owner Clear Channel said it “acknowledges” frustration of hearing impaired who couldn’t get full access to all programming, but said it complied with rules because it did best it could in emergency and would work with hearing-impaired community to meet its needs.