The News-Press & Gazette Co. seeks a 90-day...
The News-Press & Gazette Co. seeks a 90-day waiver of the FCC’s IP online and mobile captioning rules. NPG in St. Joseph, Mo., seeks the waiver on behalf of four of its TV stations in California, Idaho, Colorado and Texas,…
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it said in a petition (http://bit.ly/16p6tt7). NPG timely acquired encoders for the stations that are capable of generating captioning-compliant streaming, it said. Problems arose because Internet Broadcasting Systems failed “to honor its commitment to timely provide the stations with a compatible player to display the required closed captions,” it said. On an interim basis, it would be contrary to the public interest to suspend all Internet streaming of the stations’ live local newscasts until the captioning solutions are in place, NPG said.