NAB sought more time for TV stations to comply with coming FCC rules...
NAB sought more time for TV stations to comply with coming FCC rules for putting information on crawls during emergency programming onto the secondary audio stream. The rules for the secondary audio program (SAP) channel are being put in place…
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so that that textual information could be read aloud in video descriptions designed for those with vision problems. Broadcasters with SAP should have three years to comply after the order appears in the Federal Register, NAB executives told an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. All other stations should have three and a half years, said a filing Wednesday in docket 12-107 (http://bit.ly/ZbXw0j). A draft Media Bureau order awaiting a commissioner vote would give all stations two years (CD March 12 p3). The agency should update its rules so school closings, changes in school-bus schedules and other “non-imminent weather conditions and alerts” don’t need to go on the SAP channel, NAB said. The draft gives stations some leeway so they don’t need to repeat as secondary audio every time such information is broadcast in a crawl, agency officials told us.