Any online video clip captioning rules, which several...

Any online video clip captioning rules, which several media companies oppose, should apply only to new material, opponents reported telling staff in the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs and Media bureaus. Disney and its ESPN, Comcast’s NBCUniversal and its NBC News, NCTA, Time Warner and its Turner, and Viacom are “dedicated to voluntarily posting a growing number of captioned clips online,” particularly of news, said an NCTA ex parte filing. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act gives the agency no authority to require online clips be captioned, said the association in a filing posted Monday to docket 11-154 (http://bit.ly/1fqviuO). The FCC Democrats may support requiring clips from broadcast, or pay-TV, shows be captioned when put online (CD March 7 p5). “Even if the CVAA could be read to extend to certain online clips of full-length programming aired on television with captions, those clips must be able to use repurposed captioning” from the TV show, said NCTA. “Captioning for most clips online today is burdensome because technology allowing for automated repurposing of TV captions is not yet available."