DirecTV cautioned the FCC against complications that could arise from...
DirecTV cautioned the FCC against complications that could arise from a requirement to make televised emergency information on national cable channels accessible to the visually impaired. Although DirecTV has worked with national programmers on strategies to make emergency information more…
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accessible, “the requirements currently under consideration would necessitate a significant investment of resources to develop an alternative approach,” the company said in a filing in docket 12-107 (http://bit.ly/XsOU3y). The proceeding is on FCC implementation of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA). If the emergency information accessibility requirements of the CVAA are deemed to apply to such national channels, the FCC “should allow distributors sufficient time ... to implement this mandate, and flexibility in developing a solution to do so,” DirecTV said. The DBS company also urged in DirecTV attorneys’ conversation with Media Bureau staff the commission to adopt a streamlined procedure for granting a waiver of any secondary audio carriage requirement in a particular market.