It’s time to take action on closed captioning, said the National Association of the Deaf last week. After the Federal Communications Commission ruled in September that nearly 300 TV programs could be shown without captions, the NAD joined other advocacy groups and hundreds of consumers to successfully have the FCC overturn the decision. The FCC then identified 494 programs that requested a waiver of captioning requirements, and advocates filed comments/oppositions to 449 of the requests. (They’ll get to the other 45 soon.) But “these TV programs and the FCC need to hear from you!” said the NAD, and they need to hear from you by March 27. Simply go to www.nad.org/opposeTVwithoutCC and Take Action NOW! source
I went to that web-site and checked out what shows were asking for exemption from closed-captioning, and it seems most of them are religious/evangelist shows. I’d be more concerned if shows like CSI, Scrubs, Desperate Housewives, and PBS were asking to be exempt.