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Closed Captioning Catches Up with the Internet
November 15, 2011ITVS’s Abigail Licad reports on the FCC’s plan to require closed-captioning for online content. Access to online programming has largely been denied to the deaf and hearing-impaired community due to the lack of legal sanctions that require closed captioning for online content. Fortunately, things are about to change. At this very moment, the Federal…
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The FCC Report on Information Needs of Communities: A Moment of Truth, Part II
August 29, 2011Sally Jo Fifer explores how the FCC’s latest report on media and technology affects ITVS, independent producers, and the public media ecosystem.In Part One of this post, I talked about the Federal Communication Commission’s significant report on the impact of technology on the media landscape, ending with the question: What should we do? And how does…
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The FCC Report on Information Needs of Communities: A Moment of Truth for Public Media: Part I
August 22, 2011ITVS President & CEO Sally Jo Fifer responds to the FCC’s significant report on the impact of technology on the media landscape.How will 21st century media serve the public interest and local communities? That’s the question a number of recent reports have tackled, most significantly the summer publication of the Federal Communication…