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Closed Captioning – Time to Take Action
By advocacy | March 16, 2007
Posted March 16, 2007
The battle for TV closed captions continues. It is time to take action. Time to oppose requests from TV programs to be shown without closed captions, in your state.
The NAD made it easy to do. It must be done by March 27.
Remember last September, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved almost 300 TV programs, produced by non-profit organizations, to be shown without closed captions? The NAD, along with other consumer advocacy groups, and hundreds of consumers like you, asked the FCC to overturn the September 2006 decisions and support closed captions. Those advocacy efforts were successful.
The FCC suspended the September 2006 decisions and identified 494 TV program requests for waiver of the closed captioning rules. The NAD, along with other consumer advocacy groups, has been working hard. We prepared and filed comments/oppositions to 449 of those 494 requests for TV programs to be shown without closed captions. We will file comments/oppositions to the remaining 45 requests very soon. The NAD has also made it easy for you to file your comments/oppositions online.
We need your support. These TV programs and the FCC need to hear from you!
We need you to send your comments and oppose requests for TV programs to be shown without closed captions, in your state.
The NAD prepared a list for each state. Each list has the TV program name, number, producer, a summary of the request, and a recommendation for FCC action. The NAD provides a link to the FCC website for filing your comments/oppositions online. The process is more complicated than sending an e-mail, but the NAD provides step-by-step instructions for filing online.
The NAD included a Sample Comment/Opposition you can copy and use. The NAD also makes it easy for you to create a customized comment/opposition, to address different types of TV programs and recommendations for FCC action.
Take Action NOW! Go to www.nad.org/opposeTVwithoutCC.
Deadline for this action is March 27, 2007.
Topics: General |
March 16th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Please do not remove closed captioned for all people who can not hear.
Hearing people will complain if there is no sounds in TV. Please listen to deaf people’s rights of access as hearing people. No CC then No sounds!!
March 17th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Closed captioning needs to be increased, not decreased. We oppose exemptions to the captioning requirements. We also feel that there is a serious lack of captioning with new technology formats, i.e., Internet video, movie downloads, etc.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Do not take away CC. If you do this then you should also take away the audio and see how people that can hear like. How else do you think that the hearing impaired stay up to date on the world around them.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I think if these people who ask for exemptions were forced to watch their programming without the captions or sound that they may understand how important captioning is.
Unfortunately, they think more about money instead of their consumers.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:38 pm
I was born deaf and partly blind left eye… sort of! Anyway, please leave Closed Cation alone!!! It is very important for all the deaf people to learn on how to read and writing…. if not for it, how will we understand what they said and not able to read at all…if we don’t learning anything??? Please DO NOT REMOVE CLOSED CAPTION AT ALL!! They help us to understand better and get alone with hearing people in writing too!! That is Important!! I just simple don’t understand why are u doing this to all of us deaf people if u remove them? I still don’t undstand… is that money issues u need more…. gosh! Seem that the world is now come to GREEDY world which is far greater troublesome all the time and keep having more plms when trying to keep up with Closed Cation..eh? Well, I am sorry…we cannot help it for the way we deaf people do, we just born that way or got sick caused us became deaf or etc…. I am very proud of my parents for helping me out thru the diffecult times… but yet I am still fighting whatever I need… that is hardest still than the most hearing people get!
KEEP CLOSED CLOSED ON FOREVER AND NEVER REMOVED!!! They help me to learn on how to writing for English which I am not that good but do my best is all I can do!! But to allow mostly kids as well as old people can read them better and can understand easier that way!! Help us to keep them! I just simple don’t understand at all… I will never do anyway! Very sad!!
March 21st, 2007 at 10:19 pm
I am hard of hearing and way back I never had closed captioned on my tv I dont laugh or understand what it says on tv then I got my cc on tv I starts to laugh and understands the programs on tv …Closed captioned is a must on all of tv programs..I love and enjoyed it..If its no closed captioned its not fair for hearing ppls to hear it and they dont want to interpreter us what it says on tv heh?
Thanks!
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:00 am
I am born deaf - cant even watch tv without captions. Its our right as people to enjoy tv programmes never mind being Deaf. It’s like a step backwards in history if captions are taken out altogether? Most unfair!!!
Be nice if we can turn the sound off? winks
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
While I am not Deaf, I’ve studied ASL and completed an ITP training program. I feel strongly that captioning is vital to the learning process of Deaf kids. We need the wisdom of EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH to solve the problems we currently face as a nation and as a species.We can’t afford to waste the mind of anyone! Deaf folks I’ve known all say cc at least balances and often outweighs classroom experience in contributing to their ability to participate in society.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I am deaf. I oppose not having TV closed captioned 100 percent. By not close captioning 100 percent we are not offered a choice of what programs to watch. This is providing unequal services to the deaf and out of complicance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA. There should be no exceptions. FCC must support deaf and hard of hearing consumers and enforce the closed captioning rule. Thank You
May 4th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
That’s great. This is a great example of the power of advocacy. The World-Wide-Web has really opened new opportunities for advocacy and other types of campaigns. People have begun to recognized the potential of Internet advocacy as an effective tool for furthering political campaigns.