Petition for Waiver of Registration and Certification Requirement of Closed Captioning Rules

This Public Notice seeks comment on a petition filed by the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) for waiver of certain Commission registration and certification requirements for video programmers that provide video programming exclusively to public, educational, and governmental access channels (PEG channels), to the extent that such channels are exempt from the provision of closed captioning under the Commission’s rules. Specifically, ACM requests waiver of the requirements for this class of video programmers to register contact information with the Commission and to certify to the Commission that their programs are exempt from the closed captioning rules. According to ACM, PEG channels generally fall within one or more of the exemption categories, including channels or streams producing revenues of less than $3,000,000. As grounds for its waiver petition, ACM states that the certification rule will burden many thousands of PEG video programming providers. Comments are due Feb 9, and reply comments due Feb 24.


Petition for Waiver of Registration and Certification Requirement of Closed Captioning Rules