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SPREAD THE WORD!
I’m organizing a protest protesting FCC’s decision on approving non captioned programs.
THE PROTEST WILL TAKE PLACE ON APRIL 13TH ON A FRIDAY FROM 10 30 AM TO 4 PM AT 455 12TH ST SW WASHINGTON, DC. WE WILL MARCH TO CAPITOL HILL.
THE METRO CAN BE USED TAKING THE ORANGE AND BLUE LINES TO […]
http://www.tdi-online.org/FCC/FCC-CC100406_OC%2BAD.mov (http://www.tdi-online.org/)
Hell, NO!
Please contact the FCC and inform them that we object to their new trend of waiving the requirement for closed captions for programs.  Closed captioning not only benefits deaf and hard of hearing people, but also children mastering literacy skills, immigrants learning English, and viewers in noisy environments, i.e, bar settings. Even some parents are using closed […]
 On the article where a local channel was fined for not providing closed captioning during emergency weather alerts (http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2006/11/22/a-local-captioning-victory/),
a reader asked this: “Thanks to Cheryl, one station has finally woken up. Can you provide a how-to for other deaf people to do the same with their local TV stations, too? This will only work if people […]
On November 7, the FCC has recently released a 37 page list of nearly 600 companies seeking exceptions to the FCC mandated closed captioning. It is very unfortunate that even though these requests date back to 2005, they gave the American public just three weeks to review the applications and object.Thanks to the quick action of […]
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