TV stations wouldn’t be able to comply with...

TV stations wouldn’t be able to comply with a rule requiring video clips online to have closed captions until “an automated captioning video clip solution comes to market,” said NAB in an FCC ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1juzwxX). It said such a rule would also have to exclude advance promotional clips. A captioning requirement for advance clips would be “an extraordinary resource burden” and would deter such clips from being put online, NAB said in a filing posted Friday in docket 11-154. Meeting with officials from the Media and Consumer and Governmental Affairs bureaus, NAB staffers reiterated arguments that the FCC doesn’t have the authority to require captioning for IP clips, and that any deadline for implementing such a rule should be at least two years.