Music programs that are primarily non-vocal in nature, such as a symphony or ballet. Instructional television fixed service programs intended for specific receive sites and not for general distribution to private homes. However, such a contract cannot be renewed or extended. A network must comply with the captioning rules at the end of the four-year period. However, they are required to pass already captioned programs through with the captions intact.
All distributors can limit the amount of money they spend on captioning.
The limit will be based on the previous year's revenues. If a distributor edits a captioned program, they are not required to reformat the captions. Open captioning or subtitles in the language of the target audience may be used in lieu of closed captioning. Live programs or repeats of programs which originally aired live that are captioned using the electronic news room method will be considered captioned. Live portions of pledge fundraising activities by public television stations which use automated software to create a continuous captioned message will be considered captioned.