FCC Extends Deadline for Compliance with Television Closed Captioning
Quality Rules
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
By Paul Swain
Covington & Burling LLP
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/fcc-extends-deadline-compliance-television-closed-captioning-quality-rules
The *FCC announced in a recent Public Notice
<http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db1229/DA-14-1896A1.pdf> that
it will extend the deadline* for compliance with its *new television
closed captioning quality rules* until March 16, 2015.
Previously scheduled to go into effect on January 15, 2015, the quality
rules establish standards for television closed captioning concerning
(1) accuracy, (2) synchronicity, (3) completeness, and (4) placement.
The rules also require video programming distributors (/e.g./, broadcast
stations and cable systems) to seek certain certifications from video
programmers concerning closed captioning quality.
In addition to the quality rules, the extension applies to certain
related rules that also will now take effect on March 16, 2015, including:
*
Recordkeeping requirements concerning distributors’ monitoring and
maintenance of closed captioning equipment and signals; and
*
Procedures concerning informal complaints in connection with the use
of Electronic Newsroom Technique (ENT). The extension does not
affect eligible stations’ obligations to comply with the FCC’s ENT
Best Practices, which took effect on June 30, 2014.
The FCC is still considering whether to impose direct obligations for
compliance with the quality rules on programmers as well as distributors.
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