Comments Due Sept. 8 on APTS and PBS Petition on NCE Translator Carriage Notices
Comments are due Sept. 8 on a petition from America’s Public Television Stations and PBS urging the FCC Media Bureau to waive required baseline carriage notices for noncommercial educational translators, said a public notice Wednesday in docket 17-105. Replies are…
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due Sept. 14. The agency requires NCE translators to email a notice to MVPDs on which they will be seeking carriage in the 2021-2023 carriage cycle, the PN says. APTS and PBS argued NCE translators are all must-carry and so don’t interact with MVPDs to obtain carriage. “NCE translators do not even know, in many cases, which MVPDs are carrying them, and no resource exists to easily determine this information,” the PN said. “Even emailing a one-time notice would impose a substantial burden, while providing no benefit to the public, to MVPDs, or to the translators themselves.”