The Weather Channel urged the FCC to investigate...
The Weather Channel urged the FCC to investigate the captioning practices of DirecTV and WeatherNation. The WeatherNation programming carried by DirecTV “is accompanied by closed captioning that is so inaccurate that it amounts to a complete failure to caption the…
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programming,” Weather Channel said in an ex parte filing in docket 05-231 (http://bit.ly/1dCtGqr). Several viewers complained publicly “that they are not receiving WeatherNation’s closed captioning at all when viewing the channel on DirecTV,” it said. The Weather Channel has been unavailable to DirecTV subscribers since January due to a carriage agreement dispute (CD Jan 15 p20). DirecTV added WeatherNation to its channel lineup to provide subscribers with weather news and information. WeatherNation did not respond to a request for comment.