“This page is a digitally archived AccessInfo Announcement”
Comment Date: October 18, 2017
Reply Comment Date: October 30, 2017
On October 4, 2017, the FCC's Media Bureau released a Public Notice announcing the comment deadlines for a petition filed by National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) for partial reconsideration of the Commission’s Video Description Expansion Order.
NCTA requests that the Commission modifies the video description rules in order to:
- allow networks to count repeated shows more often;
- allow networks to re-count shows that are re-aired after a period of years; and
- permit compliance to be averaged across multiple quarters.
Comments shall be filed in proceeding number 11-43, which may be accessed via the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/).
Links to the Public Notice announcing comment deadlines:
Word: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-967A1.docx
PDF: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-967A1.pdf
Text: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-967A1.txt
Link to the Federal Register publication:
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2017-21239
Link to the NCTA Petition for Reconsideration:
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10911024691184/091117%2011-43%20vid%20comp…
For more information, please contact Maria Mullarkey, at 202-418-2120 or Maria.Mullarkey@fcc.gov. For those using videophones and fluent in American Sign Language, you may call the ASL Consumer Support Line at 844‐432‐2275.