FCC Waives Closed Captioning Contact Info Rule

In response to a request from DISH Network, the Federal Communications Commission has waived a requirement that video programming distributors to place contact information for the pursuit of immediate closed captioning concerns and the filing of closed captioning complaints in local telephone directories in which the distributor does not itself directly advertise or otherwise place commercial listings, so long as the distributor makes the contact information available on its website or on billing statements.