FCC ordered Shop At Home to comply immediately with Commission’s ...
FCC ordered Shop At Home to comply immediately with Commission’s rules setting minimum amount of programming that must carry closed-captioning. It also directed company to file reports to Commission each quarter on its compliance in 2002-2003 benchmark period. Commission…
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warned that if network didn’t comply, it would be subject to penalties. National Assn. of the Deaf (NAD) filed complaint. Shop At Home said that, as new network, it was exempt and that expense would be too burdensome. But NAD pointed out that company’s own Web site said it was established in 1986. Rules do allow networks launched after Jan. 1, 1998, some leeway, but Commission found Shop At Home’s claims of newness “unreasonable.” Shop At Home Gen. Counsel George Phillips said company began closed-captioning Jan. 1 and there would be “no problem” meeting number of hours required in current quarter. Phillips said company knew it would have to comply by Jan. 1, and only question was whether it would have to comply before that.