The FCC shouldn’t let New Testament Church (NTC) out of...
The FCC shouldn’t let New Testament Church (NTC) out of closed captioning rules, advocates for the deaf and hard of hearing told the FCC. NTC’s petition for exemption from the rules failed to present a compelling case that the requirements…
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would impose an undue economic burden, said a letter from a coalition of groups including Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Inc., the National Association of the Deaf, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network, the Association of Late-Deafened Adults, and the Cerebral Palsy and Deaf Organization (http://xrl.us/bm2xue). “It is essential that the Commission grant petitions for exemptions from captioning rules only in the rare case that a petition conclusively demonstrates that captioning its programming would impose a truly untenable economic burden,” the groups said. Though NTC has provided quotes from captioning companies of annual costs up to $4,524, “NTC has not demonstrated it has insufficient funds to pay for captioning,” they said. And though NTC has said providing captioning for their program would nearly double its budget, the commission must account for NTC’s overall financial resources, not just the resources available for a specific program, they said.