NCTA and NBCU Ask FCC for Relaxed Video Description Rules
The FCC should make video description rules more flexible to accommodate networks that air a great deal of live or near-live content or repeatedly re-air described programming, said NCTA and NBCUniversal in meetings last week with an aides to Chairman…
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Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, according to ex parte letters posted Friday in docket 11-43. “Some of the most highly-rated non-broadcast programming networks” provide hours of described programming that doesn’t count toward their compliance totals “since the programming is re-aired more frequently than the single repeat counted,” said NCTA on behalf of itself and NBCU, owned by association member Comcast. The FCC should provide a safe harbor for networks that go far above the 87.5 hour-per-quarter total proposed in the draft item set for the July agenda (see 1706280063) or an exemption “so that programming networks are not required to seek quarterly waivers,” NCTA said. New video description requirements shouldn’t apply to companies before July 1, NCTA said.