Archive for January, 2007
Closed Captioning – Update
Friday, January 26th, 2007The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted NAD’s request for a 120-day extension to file comments and oppositions to hundreds of requests for exemption from the closed captioning rules. The deadline for filing comments and oppositions is extended to March 27, 2007. The FCC also granted NAD’s request for permission for consumers and other consumer advocacy […]
Accessible Emergency Information
Thursday, January 4th, 2007In the summer of 2006, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) distributed a Public Notice about closed captioning emergency information. According to that Public Notice, when big city TV stations say they tried, but failed to close caption emergency information, that was OK with the FCC.
That was not OK with the NAD.
The NAD, joined by other […]