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Outdoorsmen Productions Gets Temporary Relief From Closed Captioning Rules

The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau granted a temporary extension from closed captioning requirements for the program Outdoorsmen Adventures. Outdoorsmen Productions has demonstrated that its compliance with the FCC’s closed captioning requirements “would be economically burdensome,” the bureau said in an order Thursday. The exemption is effective until Nov. 13, 2016, the bureau said.