The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA) directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reinstate its previous video description rules, which were originally adopted in 2000 but then vacated by judicial decision. On April 28, NAB submitted comments discussing the myriad factors the FCC must consider in implementing video description in a digital environment. NAB stressed that the FCC should apply the near-term requirements of the CVAA only to those entities specified in the CVAA (specifically, the top-four network affiliates in the top 25 television markets); argued that the video description requirements should not become effective until October 1, 2012 (rather than the FCC's proposed date of January 1, 2012); and urged the FCC to adopt certain categorical exemptions (e.g., for live and near-live programming, locally-produced programming, etc.) to the video description rules. Click here to read NAB's comments.