NCTA, NBCU Push for Video Description Rule Changes
FCC video description rules covering nonbroadcast networks should be changed to give more flexibility to those programmers to comply with the quarterly benchmark without resorting to waivers, NCTA and NBCUniversal representatives told Media Bureau staffers, said a docket 11-43 filing…
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posted Wednesday. NCTA and NBCU said the agency is too restrictive on how it counts repeat airings of programming toward meeting the benchmark and urged a safe harbor that would let nonbroadcast networks achieve compliance in cases where they provide significant amounts of video-described programming overall. NCTA petitioned for partial reconsideration of a video description expansion order (see 1710040031).