FCC's Rereg Push is Big Test for the Rehr NAB

FCC'S REREG PUSH IS BIG TEST FOR THE REHR NAB
[SOURCE: tvnewsday, AUTHOR: Harry Jessell]
[Commentary] The National Association of Broadcasters must figure out how to repeal the Federal Communications Commission's new disclosure rules and fight back on proposed new localism rules. What’s particularly disturbing is the initiatives are provoked by the feeling at the FCC that something is horribly wrong with broadcasters’ local programming efforts and that they need to be policed. What the broadcasters need is a plan of attack on all three fronts -- the courts, the Hill and the FCC -- and someone to direct the attack in what will likely be a long campaign. It’s up to NAB President David Rehr and his crew to show what they can do the job. This is their opportunity. NAB starts off in a hole. It should have derailed both proceedings before they saw the light of day. But, somehow, it lost touch with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and seemed to be as surprised as everybody else when he began his localism push.
http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2008/01/25/daily.14/

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