Wheeler Praises CBS, Fox, PBS for Video Description Offerings

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler hopes the commission's new Disability Advisory Committee will look into applications that can sync video description to smart devices used while watching video programming, he said in a blog post Friday. Wheeler also praised CBS, Fox and PBS for “going above and beyond current FCC rules” in offering programming with video description, highlighting a Stevie Wonder performancebroadcast on CBS Monday as the first musical performance program to use video description. Wonder visited the FCC months ago to discuss raising awareness for video description, Wheeler said.