Audio Description of Pope Francis Funeral April 26, 2025

The live coverage in all time zones will begin at 4:00 am ET / 1:00 am PT and will conclude sometime around the 6:00 am ET / 3:00am PT hour.

CBS is pleased to present the full CBS broadcast with audio description on the Secondary Audio Program channel (SAP). The live description will be provided by Descriptive Video Works. The broadcast will be available with additional audio narration, describing the rich visuals of the special funeral service.

As always, if your local CBS affiliate does not reliably pass through audio description (also known as Network SAP), please contact them as soon as possible.

The Audio Description Project's TV page [app.dvcomms.net] has information on one way of finding your local affiliate's contact information if you do not already have it.

Thank you to the CBS News Technical and the CBS News Special Events teams who were committed and able to make the live audio description happen for the blind and low vision community in such a short timeframe.

Please share any feedback you have after viewing the service on Saturday morning with the Audio Description Project. You can email advocacy@acb.org.​

We hope this information is helpful. God bless.