From the Broadcast Law Blog....Comment Deadline on Video Description Rulemaking Extended
As David Oxenford wrote on our sister site, the Broadcast Law Blog, the FCC has granted an extension of time to submit comments in its proceeding to re-institute video description rules for television programming. Comments are now due April 28th, and Reply Comments are due by May 27th. A copy of the FCC's recent Order extending the deadline is available here. As we wrote about earlier (here), this rule making proceeding seeks to reinstate the Commission's prior video description rules with certain modifications, as required by the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (the CVAA). The proposed rules would require large market broadcast affiliates of the top four national networks and most cable operators and DBS providers to provide programming with audio narrated descriptions of a television program’s key visual elements beginning as soon as first quarter 2012. Davis Wright Tremaine previously summarized the Act in our earlier advisory available here.
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