The FCC will continue to weigh the same four factors...
The FCC will continue to weigh the same four factors when deciding whether to give exemptions to captioning requirements, despite new statutory language enacted with the 21st Century Video Accessibility Act, it said in a report and order released Friday…
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(http://xrl.us/bnhkp3). Additionally, it amended that part of its rules to replace all references to “undue burden” with “economically burdensome” to correspond to the new law, it said. The four factors are the nature and cost of closed captions, the impact on operation on the provider or program owner, the financial resources of the provider or program owner and the type of operations of the provider or program owner. “We conclude that Congress did not intend any substantive change to the criteria that the Commission has consistently used for individual closed captioning petitions,” the order said. “We therefore will interpret the term ‘economically burdensome’ ... as synonymous with the term ‘undue burden,'” it said.