With the FCC poised to revisit the 2022 Quadrennial Review in the coming months, the NAB is pushing full force for the elimination of local radio ownership limits. Its legal team met with advisors to Commissioners Anna Gomez and Olivia Trusty days ahead of the Commission's next open meeting.
The company behind a low-power TV station licensed to West Haven, Conn., has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court over the FCC's denial, and appeal courts' concurring views, that have prevented the facility from upgrading to Class A status under the Low Power Protection Act.
A new media rights deal will keep the NBA's Phoenix Suns, WNBA's Phoenix Mercury and G-League Valley Suns on broadcast TV for the next three seasons. It's thanks to a fresh agreement signed by Mat Ishbia and Gray Media's Phoenix stations, former Meredith Local Media properties.
"Broadcasters must be able to make programming decisions free from government influence — a responsibility the First Amendment entrusts to America’s local TV and radio stations." That's what NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt expressed in commentary shared Sunday by the association.
As RBR+TVBR first reported on September 17, the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025 was sent to the full U.S. House of Representatives for a full floor vote by the Energy & Commerce Committee with a neutered sunset period of the law. As John Catsimatidis sees it, "The sunset clause is unnecessary."