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Action Alert:

Concerns about TV closed captioning.

Hello, my name is Don Lee Hanaumi

with an important announcement from NAD, TDI

and other deaf and hard-of-hearing advocacy groups.

As a deaf person

I turn on the TV and expect

all programs to be captioned.

Today, I turn on the TV and still see

many programs not captioned, right?

Last week, the FCC approved many,

many-- about requests so far

for new TV programs to be shown

without closed captions.

Imagine that?!

We must protest this FCC decision.

We must tell the FCC to

support closed captioning.

What happened?

On September 12,

the FCC announced publicly

that two TV programs do not need

to be closed captioned.

This is the first time the FCC approved

no closed captions, permanently.

Worse, the FCC said that it is more

likely to approve requests

made by TV programs for

those reasons:

1. When the TV programs is

produced by a non-profit organization;

2. When the organization receives nothing

in exchange for their TV program

or when they need

to pay broadcast their program;

3. When the organization says

the cost for closed captioning

will result in reducing or stopping their

TV program or other important activities.

We deaf and hard-of-hearing

advocacy groups also learned

that the FCC has actually received

approximately 550 requests to date

for approval to be excused from

captioning their TV programs.

Worse, we learned that the FCC

has already approved

approximately 300 of those requests

for no captions.

Most of these requests were

not put on public notice.

We, the deaf and

hard-of-hearing consumers

did not get an opportunity to comment

about these requests for no captions.

Did the FCC violate tje

closed-captioning rules? We wonder.

What can you do?

Important:

We, the deaf and hard-of-hearing,

want the FCC chairman to stand strong

and not weaken the closed-captioning

rules for TV programs.

We do not want the FCC to make

a new category of TV programs

that can be excused from

the closed-captioning rules.

Without FCC support

of closed captioning

hundreds of other TV programs

may expect to be excused

from closed captioning rules.

We are losing trust in the

TV industry and in the FCC.

We cannot afford for our hard-fought

closed-captioning rules

to be bent even a little!

All shows should be captioned, period!

The closed-captioning rules

have been around years.

They are not new rules;

they are not a surprise!

It's time for the TV industry

and the FCC to wake up

and realize we are important!

First, we must make sure to tell the

FCC chairman and the commission

to stand by consumers and

reverse their decision.

How?

We must contact the FCC

to protest the decision

to grant permanent waivers

for closed captions.

Call FCC chairman Kevin Martin, now!

Phone (202) 418-1000, voice number.

Call through relay service.

When you call, tell him

three important things;

1. I am angry

and I protest the FCC's apporval to

excuse TV captioning requirements!

No show should be on TV

without captions!

Why?

2. I cannot watch TV programs

that are not captioned.

3. FCC must reverse their decision

and support deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers

and support closed captioning on all TV programs!

Call now.

Thank you!

 

Have a nice day and night!

 

Jeremy