Apps that cable operators developed aren’t equipment, navigation...
Apps that cable operators developed aren’t equipment, navigation devices or apparatus under the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, NCTA reported Senior Vice President-Law and Regulatory Policy Rick Chessen and other association lawyers told FCC officials. But on-screen text…
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menus supplied by operators and guides provided by navigation devices are subject to CVAA Section 205, Chessen and colleagues said during meetings with aides to acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and Commissioner Ajit Pai and with a Media Bureau official. The filing posted last week in docket 12-108 comes as CEA and groups representing those with vision problems have been lobbying the agency on the CVAA and highlighting areas where they agree and disagree (CD Sept 19 p31). NCTA’s ex parte filing in docket 12-108 (http://bit.ly/19Qvp9V) included a copy of an earlier filing outlining areas of such agreement. The agency should reject some commenters’ requests to require pay-TV companies to include information in program guides that’s not already provided, NCTA said Thursday.