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Cablevision needs more time to develop its Optimum...

Cablevision needs more time to develop its Optimum mobile app to receive and pass through video description and emergency information over a secondary audio channel, the cable company told FCC Media Bureau and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau staff in…

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a meeting Tuesday, said an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 12-107 (http://bit.ly/1sKU6DF). Cablevision customers using the app on laptops and PCs can already access information delivered over the secondary audio channel, but “further development and software upgrades and testing are needed” to provide the same service over the mobile app, said the cable operator. It said Cablevision “emphasized the need for the Commission to give it sufficient time to complete this complicated process."