Groups representing the deaf and hard of hearing community urged...
Groups representing the deaf and hard of hearing community urged the FCC to dismiss petitions from religious and other broadcasters asking to be exempt from closed captioning rules. The petitions “each fail to sufficiently demonstrate that compliance with closed captioning…
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rules would be economically burdensome,” Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, National Association of the Deaf and others said in a joint opposition in docket 06-181 (http://bit.ly/Z0QMnN). Kellogg Street Productions, Clinton, N.Y., doesn’t appear to provide detailed statements of its financial information, the filing said. Anglers for Christ Ministries, Morristown, Tenn., and First Assembly of God-Jonesboro in Arkansas, don’t appear “to offer a tenable explanation of how they are able to shoulder the ongoing costs of creating and distributing their programming but not the cost of closed captions,” it said.