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Is closed captioning of television programming required?

April 26, 2017captioning closed Programming television

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Is closed captioning of television programming required?

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Congress passed The Telecommunications Act of 1996, a law requiring video program distributors (cable operators, broadcasters, and satellite distributors) to phase in closed captioning of their television programs. The law does not require captioning of VHS or DVD home video releases, video games, or videos on the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prescribed rules and implementation schedules for the captioning of video programming for television broadcasts. They established an eight-year transition period starting on January 1, 1998 for the captioning of new video programming in English. As of the end of the transition period, January 1, 2006, 100% of all non-exempt new programs must be captioned.