[nabs-l] FCC Releases Video Description Rules

[Jewel]

50 hours per quarter doesn't seem like much to me...

On 8/30/11, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu> wrote:
> Awesome!
> Hopefully, the Christian television channels will do the same, with
> their movies.
> I know, that Daystar, TBN, and VTN, (a local Christian channel in
> Arkansas,) show Christian movies, on the weekends.
> I hope this will apply to them, later on.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 8/29/11, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
>> I know that this is a little late, but just incase people did not hear
>> from
>> another source...
>>
>>
>>
>> On August 25, 2011, the Commission released a Report and Order to adopt
>> rules requiring video description for certain television programming.
>> Video
>> description is narrated descriptions of a television program’s key visual
>> elements inserted into natural pauses in the program’s dialogue.  Video
>> descriptions improve access to television programs for millions of
>> Americans
>> who are blind or visually impaired.
>>
>> The Commission adopted rules requiring video description in 2000, but
>> those
>> rules were struck down by a federal court in 2002.  In 2010, Congress
>> enacted the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility
>> Act
>> (CVAA), which required reinstatement of those video description rules,
>> with
>> certain modifications.
>>
>> These video description rules require ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC affiliates in
>> the top 25 market areas and cable and satellite television providers with
>> more than 50,000 subscribers to provide video description.  ABC, CBS, Fox,
>> NBC, USA, the Disney Channel, TNT, Nickelodeon, and TBS are each required
>> to
>> provide 50 hours of video-described prime time or children’s programming
>> per
>> calendar quarter.  Full compliance with the rules is required on July 1,
>> 2012.
>>
>> Report and Order:
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A1.doc
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A1.pdf
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A1.txt
>>
>>
>> Copps Statement:
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A2.doc
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A2.pdf
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A2.txt
>>
>>
>> Clyburn Statement:
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A3.doc
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A3.pdf
>> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0825/FCC-11-126A3.txt
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