Comcast and advocates for the hearing impaired lobbied the FCC...
Comcast and advocates for the hearing impaired lobbied the FCC on their different interpretations of a 2010 law’s requirements for what types of TV services should face emergency accessibility programming rules. The cable operator backs a rulemaking notice proposal that…
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multichannel video programming distributors should be required to pass through such information from broadcasters on the secondary audio stream. The company also backed a rulemaking’s proposal to cover broadcast TV and MVPD services but not Internet Protocol-delivered content that’s not otherwise an MVPD service, a filing said executives told an aide to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. “Comcast today passes through the secondary audio stream for all of its cable services and supports access to secondary audio in its set-top boxes.” The ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/YM5JoL) was posted Tuesday in docket 12-107, where a lobbying disclosure from two deaf groups also appeared that day. The agency should “clarify that the emergency information rules will apply to all video programming providers” and video programming distributors, “not just broadcasters” and MVPDs, National Association of the Deaf and Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing reported telling aides to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. The law “prevents the Commission from excluding classes of apparatuses” such as those getting IP-delivered content from MVPDs, from the rules, the groups said (http://bit.ly/YM5JoL).