The FCC issued an order Tuesday mandating video...
The FCC issued an order Tuesday mandating video description of emergency video crawls but leaving open the question of waivers for small cable systems and with requirements for small media players, and tablets and smart phones to be addressed in…
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a further notice of rulemaking (http://bit.ly/17pi9uK). In large part the order echoes what industry insiders said they were expecting. It requires broadcasters, multichannel video programming distributors [MVPDs], and “any other distributor of video programming for residential reception that delivers such programming directly to the home and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission” to put an aural description on a secondary audio stream of any emergency information that is available visually. There’s a two year deadline for compliance with the new order. According to the FNPR, the Commission will also continue to look into whether MVPDs are covered by the new rule when their subscribers can “access linear video programming that contains emergency information via tablets, laptops, personal computers, smartphones, or similar devices.” In his statement Commission Ajit Pai said he was “pleased” by this and that “any... tentative conclusions would have been premature.”