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Posted by Steve Guidry on 12/22/05 22:37
I realize that the prime mover in this whole matter is the FCC. But there
are a number of exceptions, one of which is for "non-news programs with no
repeat value."
The church may well decide to do the captioning. I guess my beef is with
the station - - they've know this this for some time now, and only just now
decided to mention it. And they're requiring us to get a formal waiver when
the exception is clearly warranted, and requires no FCC paperwork.
Steve
"Chip Gallo" <cgallo@nospamcitlink.net> wrote in message
news:nCEqf.1827$OU3.1280@news01.roc.ny...
> Steve Guidry wrote:
> > I produce a church worship program that airs weekly on the local NBC
> > affiliate.
> >
> > They're trying to make us do closed captioning for all programs
beginning
> > January 1. This is particularly onerous given the fact that they
mentioned
> > it for the first time THIS WEEK. They're playing hardball on this one,
> > which is surprising given the fact that this church has been on with
them
> > since 1974.
> >
> > After checking with the other stations in town, I'm finding that they
are
> > allowing their church programs to air without captioning under the "no
> > repeat value" exception. (There's also an "under $3million revenue
> > exception" which would seem to apply.)
> >
> > Has anyone else faced this ? What was the resolution ?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Guidry
> > Video Works, Inc.
> > Live events for TV and Video
> > www.videoworksinc.com
> > 800.844.4404
> >
> >
> It's not NBC, it's the FCC. See http://ftp.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/cctimeline.html
>
> Just wondering, why don't you want to caption the material? If you do it
> with somebody like Automaticsync (http://www.automaticsync.com/), it
> costs around $200/hour to transcribe and caption. Less if you already
> have a transcript. And you can upload the edited video to their web site
> and get the caption file mailed back to you. Not sure of the work flow
> for line 21; we have been doing Windows media files (WMV).
>
>
> Chip Gallo
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