NAB Meets With Trusty on Ownership Caps

NAB Meets With Trusty on Ownership Caps

WASHINGTON—NAB officials continued their push to end strict ownership caps on station groups during a recent meeting with Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Olivia Trusty and her Senior Legal Advisor Marcus Maher. During the July 23 meeting, which was disclosed in a July 27 filing with the agency, NAB president and CEO Curtis LeGeyt, NAB chief legal officer Rick Kaplan, and others others urged Commissioner Trusty to support replaceme…

TV Rule Thaw Prompts NAB To Make Radio’s Case To FCC

Days before the FCC’s August Open Meeting vote to loosen national television ownership reach limits, the NAB is using its seat at the table for that fight to also push regulators toward the same relief for radio’s own decades-old ownership caps as part of the 2022 Quadrennial Review. NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt, Chief Legal Officer Rick Kaplan (pictured, top left), and Sr. Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Jerianne Timmerman met with…

TV Cap Vote Gives NAB an Inroad To Promote Radio Cap Reform

Days before the FCC's vote to loosen national television ownership limits, the NAB is using its seat at the table for that fight to also push regulators toward the same relief for radio's own decades-old ownership caps as part of the 2022 Quadrennial Review.