PEG Closed Captioning To Be Focus of Nov. 10 FCC Roundtable
Closed captioning for public, educational and governmental (PEG) access programming will be the focus of an FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau roundtable discussion, 1 to 5 p.m., Nov. 10, in the Commission Meeting Room, the agency said in a…
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public notice Friday. The event will cover such topics as rules generally covering video closed captioning, with speakers including Eliot Greenwald, deputy chief of the bureau's disability rights office; Amanda Maisels, deputy chief, Justice Department's Civil Rights Division disability rights section; Claude Stout, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing executive director; and Mike Wassenaar, Alliance for Community Media president. There also will be a session on closed captioning best practices and challenges facing PEG, with speakers including Diane Burstein, NCTA deputy general counsel; Tole Khesin, 3PlayMedia vice president-marketing; Carol Studenmund, LNS Captioning president; Christian Vogler, director of Gallaudet University's Technology Access Program; and Heather York, Vitac vice president-marketing. And there will be a session on various low-cost and free options available for PEG programming closed captioning, with speakers including Jason Barnett, Flarean Special Benefits Corp. president; Steve Brunsberg, Saint Paul Neighborhood Network operations and production manager; Donna Keating, County Cable Montgomery media services manager and executive producer; Carl Richardson, Massachusetts State House Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator; and Steve Traylor, NATOA executive director.