Federal Communications Commission DA 14-832
Before the 
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of
Closed Captioning of Video Programming
Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of 
Hearing, Inc.
Petition for Rulemaking
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CG Docket No. 05-231
ORDER
Extended Comment Date:  July 9, 2014
Extended Reply Comment Date:  August 8, 2014
Adopted:  June 17, 2014  Released:  June 17, 2014
By the Acting Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau:
1. By this Order we extend the comment and reply comment deadlines in the above-
captioned proceeding.  On February 24, 2014, the Commission released a Report and Order, Declaratory 
Ruling, and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,1 which specified a series of deadlines for filing 
comments and reply comments for various portions of the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(FNPRM).  For certain issues raised in the FNPRM, the comment and reply comment dates were set at 90 
and 120 days after publication of the FNPRM in the Federal Register.2 A summary of the FNPRM was 
published in the Federal Register on March 27, 2014.3 Accordingly, the filing dates were established as 
June 25, 2014, for comments, and July 25, 2014, for reply comments.  
  
1 See Closed Captioning of Video Programming, CG Docket No. 05-231, Report and Order, Declaratory Ruling, and 
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 29 FCC Rcd 2221 (2014).
2 Id.  For the section entitled “Responsibilities for Meeting the Closed Captioning Requirements,” id. at 2291-96, ¶¶ 
122-130, the comments and reply comments were due 30 and 60 days, respectively, after publication of the FNPRM
in the Federal Register.  For the remaining sections of the FNPRM, comments are due 90 days after publication in 
the Federal Register, and replies are due 120 days after publication in the Federal Register.
3 Federal Communications Commission, 47 CFR Part 79, Closed Captioning of Video Programming; 
Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Petition for Rulemaking, Proposed Rule, 79 FR 17093 
(March 27, 2014).
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2. On June 10, 2014, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA)4 filed 
a request to extend the above comment and reply comment deadlines by fourteen (14) days each.  NCTA 
contends that the “expedited timeframe for resolving issues raised” in this proceeding requires the
attention of a number of individuals who are currently working on a separate Commission proceeding 
related to captioning IP-delivered video clips.5 NCTA states that a two-week extension of the comment 
and reply comment deadlines will ensure that it has sufficient time to obtain information and coordinate 
responses from its members in order to prepare comments addressing the issues raised by the FNPRM.  
On June 16, 2014, a coalition of consumer organizations6 filed comments supporting NCTA’s request.7  
3. As set forth in Section 1.46 of the Commission’s rules,8 the Commission’s policy is that 
extensions of time for filing comments in rulemaking proceedings shall not be routinely granted.  In the 
instant case, however, we find that granting a brief extension of the comment and reply comment periods 
will serve the public interest by allowing NCTA and others to gather the information that they need to 
fully prepare their comments and reply comments and, thus, facilitate the development of a more 
complete record.  
4. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 4(i) of the Communications Act 
of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. § 154(i), and Sections 0.141, and 1.46 of the Commission’s rules, 47 
C.F.R. §§ 0.141, and 1.46, the Motion for Extension of Time filed by the National Cable & 
Telecommunications Association IS GRANTED, the deadline to file comments in this proceeding is 
extended to July 9, 2014, and the deadline to file reply comments is extended to August 8, 2014.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Kris Monteith
Acting Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs 
Bureau
  
4 NCTA describes itself as “the principal trade association for the U.S. cable industry, representing cable operators 
serving more than 90 percent of the nation’s cable television households and more than 200 cable program 
networks.”
5 Media Bureau Seeks Comment on Application of the IP Closed Captioning Rules to Video Clips, Public Notice, 28 
FCC Rcd 16699 (2013).
6 Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI), the National Association of the Deaf (NAD), 
the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA), the Cerebral 
Palsy and Deaf Organization (CPADO), the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network (DHHCAN), 
and Speech Communication Assistance by Telephone (SCT) (collectively, Consumer Groups).  The Technology 
Access Program at Gallaudet University (TAP) also joined with the Consumer Groups in the filing.
7 Consumer Groups and TAP, Support for NCTA’s Motion for Extension of Time, CG Docket No. 05-231, June 16, 
2014 (corrected version).
8 47 C.F.R. § 1.46(a).