I agreed with you. God will never forgive them! I’m Deaf by birth and Christian for more than 15 years. I have seen the growth number of hearing Christians who recognized Deaf as people group, not disability. International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention recognized it and set up the countries with Deaf groups in it. Till I got a word from someone that the very first church in GA asked for an exemption from CC, I was so surprised! I contacted the Deaf couple and learned that they lost a pastor (hearing church) and their budget was so bad that they had to cut many programs and did not realize how important the CC was. The Deaf couple was working on this matter with their church.
I’m member of NRB and The group and I will be in Florida this coming Feb 07 and we are planning to address this issue with them. FYI, few networks were leaving NRB for other reasons but this is a good sign for us to work with those networks that believe in providing CC.
Also we are working on a guideline or information packet on how to get CC service with a reasonable cost to fit into their budget (ex. Church of 100 people with 50k budget.) This is the way that we show them the solution that they can’t afford to ignore. At the same token, we need to press on FCC to stop giving them (I mean churches) the exemptions and revert all the exemptions that FCC gave in the past.
A Deaf Man Whom Christ died,
Brance
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A True Atheist (10:00:34) :
It’s a wonderful news for me! No more rubbish from judeo-christianity infected churches!!!
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Jim Sundahl (00:01:59) :
I am very profoundly hard of hearing. Close Captions are for me a way to see what is going on. During the late nights I have found many news orgs do not use closed captions. Since I am up in the wee hours of the day and am interested in what the world has going on I find it very offensive that they do not use cc.
As for Christian Orgs, while many put their message out in honest way should all have CC, the ones that always demand money I could careless about. If they want money they should spend some for their deaf and hard of hearing watchers. As I said “watchers” not listeners. It has always driven many friend nuts when I watch as show or read lips and they can’t understand what is going on. But watching a show on TV when some is not on the screen or with thier back turned and no CC make sme just turn it to a station that supports deaf and ahrd of hearing. NBC, CBS, Fox, ABC, MSNBC all do not have CC after about midnight on many shows.
Second groups like Blockbusters do not put CC in the info on their DVD’s they rent, they tell to go to a Aussy website to check if it has CC, it has always upset me when I receive a DVD that has no CC. I have even bought some that say they have but it does not work.
Thank You for the time to put this in words, since the networks never answer bitchy e-mails.
Jim
in Portland Oregon… even Public TV has no captions Should be a Federal Law that requires it since we pay for it out of your tax dollars and donations.
[...] Required to Caption? We Must Object! How to File Against Groups Asking for Exemptions on CC Closed Captioning Exemptions Concerns Clock is Ticking on FCC Captioning Exemption Requests Captions in Our Future? Depends onDon’t Want You To Know Los Angeles Schools Ask for Captioning Exceptions??? More Ugly News on Captioning Exemptions This entry is filed under Captioning. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply [...]
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DeafLinux (04:25:28) :
How religious television services can not afford closed captioning; nevertheless, can afford to broadcast on television. That makes no sense to me.
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DeafLinux (04:35:32) :
In addition to Mr. Sundhal’s comment about public TV access ARE required under the law to provide closed caption on all local, state and federal government channels. Also if any television programs received funds from the federal government must provide closed captioned. You can file a non-compliance closed captioned complaints with the Federal Communication Agency (FCC). It is always a good idea to send carbon copy to the National Association of the Deaf, Inc. (www.nad.org) and TDI, Inc. (www.tdi-online.org) because they will follow-up and make sure the offenders are in compliance.
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Heather (22:04:26) :
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding around the issues of Closed Captioning. I hope I can clear some of it up for you…from a small business person’s perspective.
1.) The majority of the CC you see on non public service related television is NOT paid for by the Federal Government it is paid out of pocket by the Networks themselves or the Production House of the particular program you are watching.
2.) Closed Captioning services are a very niche business in many markets nationwide, therefore the cost can be extravagant to lower cost productions. (A cost of $500-$1000 for each 30 minute TV program on top of the cost to air the program as well as production costs).
3.) Your list of organizations or businesses that have petitions with the FCC are merely asking for more time to be able to comply with the new regulation.
Have you noticed the increasing amount of informercials on your local channels and cable? Guess what? They don’t have to be closed captioned! At this rate- that’s all that will be available in the next few years to watch on T.V.
I would challenge you to write your federal government to ask for more funding for closed captioning, especially for the average americans like myself, working hard to make a living providing informational, local programming to our community.
Thank you for your time.
An Average Everyday Citizen
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don phillips (09:50:10) :
What is next from the FCC - live voice casting and description for the blind …
language translation for our ever growing Mexican population who do not want to learn English … although all population groups deserve access to TV,
the FCC can’t put the burden of this cost on the small producer or struggling indy TV stations (including cable). If you want all the programming to come from the like of Fox or Disney who can afford these FCC taxes on the poor,
then keep supporting these actions.
From one of the people on the list above with FCC exemption
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Closed Captioning Exemption Concerns, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
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I agreed with you. God will never forgive them! I’m Deaf by birth and Christian for more than 15 years. I have seen the growth number of hearing Christians who recognized Deaf as people group, not disability. International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention recognized it and set up the countries with Deaf groups in it. Till I got a word from someone that the very first church in GA asked for an exemption from CC, I was so surprised! I contacted the Deaf couple and learned that they lost a pastor (hearing church) and their budget was so bad that they had to cut many programs and did not realize how important the CC was. The Deaf couple was working on this matter with their church.
I’m member of NRB and The group and I will be in Florida this coming Feb 07 and we are planning to address this issue with them. FYI, few networks were leaving NRB for other reasons but this is a good sign for us to work with those networks that believe in providing CC.
Also we are working on a guideline or information packet on how to get CC service with a reasonable cost to fit into their budget (ex. Church of 100 people with 50k budget.) This is the way that we show them the solution that they can’t afford to ignore. At the same token, we need to press on FCC to stop giving them (I mean churches) the exemptions and revert all the exemptions that FCC gave in the past.
A Deaf Man Whom Christ died,
Brance
It’s a wonderful news for me! No more rubbish from judeo-christianity infected churches!!!
I am very profoundly hard of hearing. Close Captions are for me a way to see what is going on. During the late nights I have found many news orgs do not use closed captions. Since I am up in the wee hours of the day and am interested in what the world has going on I find it very offensive that they do not use cc.
As for Christian Orgs, while many put their message out in honest way should all have CC, the ones that always demand money I could careless about. If they want money they should spend some for their deaf and hard of hearing watchers. As I said “watchers” not listeners. It has always driven many friend nuts when I watch as show or read lips and they can’t understand what is going on. But watching a show on TV when some is not on the screen or with thier back turned and no CC make sme just turn it to a station that supports deaf and ahrd of hearing. NBC, CBS, Fox, ABC, MSNBC all do not have CC after about midnight on many shows.
Second groups like Blockbusters do not put CC in the info on their DVD’s they rent, they tell to go to a Aussy website to check if it has CC, it has always upset me when I receive a DVD that has no CC. I have even bought some that say they have but it does not work.
Thank You for the time to put this in words, since the networks never answer bitchy e-mails.
Jim
in Portland Oregon… even Public TV has no captions Should be a Federal Law that requires it since we pay for it out of your tax dollars and donations.
[...] Required to Caption? We Must Object! How to File Against Groups Asking for Exemptions on CC Closed Captioning Exemptions Concerns Clock is Ticking on FCC Captioning Exemption Requests Captions in Our Future? Depends onDon’t Want You To Know Los Angeles Schools Ask for Captioning Exceptions??? More Ugly News on Captioning Exemptions This entry is filed under Captioning. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply [...]
How religious television services can not afford closed captioning; nevertheless, can afford to broadcast on television. That makes no sense to me.
In addition to Mr. Sundhal’s comment about public TV access ARE required under the law to provide closed caption on all local, state and federal government channels. Also if any television programs received funds from the federal government must provide closed captioned. You can file a non-compliance closed captioned complaints with the Federal Communication Agency (FCC). It is always a good idea to send carbon copy to the National Association of the Deaf, Inc. (www.nad.org) and TDI, Inc. (www.tdi-online.org) because they will follow-up and make sure the offenders are in compliance.
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding around the issues of Closed Captioning. I hope I can clear some of it up for you…from a small business person’s perspective.
1.) The majority of the CC you see on non public service related television is NOT paid for by the Federal Government it is paid out of pocket by the Networks themselves or the Production House of the particular program you are watching.
2.) Closed Captioning services are a very niche business in many markets nationwide, therefore the cost can be extravagant to lower cost productions. (A cost of $500-$1000 for each 30 minute TV program on top of the cost to air the program as well as production costs).
3.) Your list of organizations or businesses that have petitions with the FCC are merely asking for more time to be able to comply with the new regulation.
Have you noticed the increasing amount of informercials on your local channels and cable? Guess what? They don’t have to be closed captioned! At this rate- that’s all that will be available in the next few years to watch on T.V.
I would challenge you to write your federal government to ask for more funding for closed captioning, especially for the average americans like myself, working hard to make a living providing informational, local programming to our community.
Thank you for your time.
An Average Everyday Citizen
What is next from the FCC - live voice casting and description for the blind …
language translation for our ever growing Mexican population who do not want to learn English … although all population groups deserve access to TV,
the FCC can’t put the burden of this cost on the small producer or struggling indy TV stations (including cable). If you want all the programming to come from the like of Fox or Disney who can afford these FCC taxes on the poor,
then keep supporting these actions.
From one of the people on the list above with FCC exemption
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Closed Captioning Exemption Concerns, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.