A petition requesting that “The Leon Charney Report” be exempt from the FCC’s...
A petition requesting that “The Leon Charney Report” be exempt from the FCC’s closed captioning rules should be dismissed, said Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the National Association of the Deaf and other consumer groups. The petition,…
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filed by Leon Charney Media Foundation, doesn’t appear “to disclose necessary financial information about the Report,” they said in a filing in docket 06-181 (http://xrl.us/bobv3i). The petition “fails to establish that LCMF sought out the most reasonable price for captioning The Leon Charney Report, nor that LCMF and Mr. Charney cannot afford to caption the Report,” it said. The groups also urged the commission to clarify in the dismissal that video programmers “cannot avoid the commission’s closed captioning rules simply by transferring their programming to unprofitable shell corporations,” they added.