FCC Seeks More Input On Responsibility For Closed Captioning

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking additional comment on how it should proceed if it decides to extend some of the responsibility for complying with closed captioning beyond broadcasters and TV stations to the programming's producers.

On December 15, the FCC issued a second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asking that, if it does shift some of the burden for compliance to programmers, should the FCC require video programmers to provide contact information for purposes of captioning complaints, as VPD's (video program distributors) and stations must do? And if the FCC requires that, would VPD's still be required to file independent certifications of caption quality.