New Video Description Draft Rules Trimmed of Wheeler-Era Provisions
Draft video description rules set for commissioners' July 13 agenda would raise the amount of described video description 75 percent but don't include provisions supported by the previous administration to expand the scope of the video requirement, according to the…
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draft order (see 1706220050). The draft would increase the amount of described programming on each included network from 50 hours per quarter to 87.5, and allow any programming between 6 a.m. and midnight to count, but it doesn’t take up a number of other proposals that were contained in the draft NPRM issued under then-Chairman Tom Wheeler. Rules that would have expanded the number of networks and a “no backsliding policy” -- both of which were opposed by Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mike O’Rielly -- aren't part of the draft on circulation.