How to File Reply Comments in the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, MB 12-108
Channel: rghm
Date: 2013-08-03

This is a screencast to assist PEG access TV managers in preparing & filing Reply Comments in the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding accessibility and onscreen program guides.

The first part (5 min.) is on how and what to file.  It's all you need to know to file comments. The remaining 8 minutes is some context on the 2010 law, and some quotes from some PEG access advocates' initial comments.  That's interesting, but not essential in order for you to file your comments.

Here are the pages shown in this screencast and their URLs:


HOW & WHAT TO FILE

FCC Electronic Comments Filing System
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/display?z=do6nm

Comments from Metro Television, Eugene, OR
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m21ViUqCjyc5EOd87M8FNuaU-fH2TYhg54Ydz1N9SvA/edit?usp=sharing

Comments Template from Montgomery Co., MD
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_n8Z_8kuyLCb3FMZENTalJfdlU/edit?usp=sharing
 
BACKGROUND

CVAA at GovTrack.us
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/s3304#

President Obama's CVAA Signing Statement
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/08/remarks-president-signing-21st-century-communications-and-video-accessib

Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology on CVAA
http://www.coataccess.org/node/4623

National Association of the Deaf on CVAA
http://www.nad.org/issues/civil-rights/communications-act/21st-century-act

FCC Guide for CVAA
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-2010

FCC Encyclopedia for CVAA
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/twenty-first-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-0

FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, MB 12-108
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-13-77A1.pdf

INITIAL COMMENTS

Alliance for Communications Democracy
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520930767

Alliance for Community Media
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520930587

NACO/NATOA/USCM
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520929891

Montgomery County, Maryland
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520930801

Chicago Access Network TV
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520929381

CLOSING

Community Media Database Reply Comments Eblast
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14QFA0hRV1ckD-N1pp0Bz6JK9OHOZQ-8SUI0qWG7UUw4/edit?usp=sharing

Desktop Picture: Frosted Leaf Galaxy, by Masahiro Miyasaka [FLICKR]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43894176@N07/5150022192/

Desktop Picture: Frosted Leaf Galaxy, by Masahiro Miyasaka [APOD]
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101117.html