Wednesday, October 26, 2011

FCC Reverses on Captioning Exemptions

The FCC has reversed its decision 5 years ago to give nearly 300 video programmers permanent exemptions to the closed captioning rules. These program providers had to demonstrate that providing captions would impose a burden. Five others have been allowed to continue in their "permanent exemption." The programmers whose exemptions are revoked have 90 days to challenge the decision.