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NAB Welcomes FCC's Plan to Eliminate Outdated Regs


In comments filed with the FCC, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) welcomed the Commission's initiation of a proceeding to eliminate or modify radio and television broadcasters regulations that its says are "outdated, unnecessary or unduly burdensome." Concurrently, the NAB said that broadcasters are not seeking any diminution in their obligations to serve their communities of license. Rather, broadcasters support an updated regulatory regime enhancing local stations' ability to serve more effectively in today's competitive media marketplace.

To accomplish that goal, NAB and its members are urging the FCC to "reduce or eliminate unproductive and competitively disparate regulatory and administrative burdens that divert broadcast stations' scarce resources away from programming and other services that benefit the public." The trade group also wrote that such reform is important for smaller stations with fewer financial and personnel resources.

In its comments, NAB noted that modifying or eliminating a number of existing regulatory burdens on broadcasters will "in no way reduce radio and TV stations' incentives to serve their local audiences with responsive programming." Instead NAB says the incentives of broadcasters to offer programming attracting the widest possible audiences have never been greater, with the number of new digital services.

"The FCC also has an affirmative obligation under the Paperwork Reduction Act and the Regulatory Flexibility Act to reduce paperwork and administrative burdens on broadcast licensees and to minimize the economic impact of its regulations on small broadcasters," NAB said in its comments in which it also set forth proposals to reform or eliminate some of the reporting, recordkeeping and filing requirements currently imposed on radio and TV stations.

In the comments, NAB wrote that it also believes that the costs and benefits of preparing and filing ownership reports would be more appropriately balanced by reducing their frequency of filing and requiring their submission following changes in control of broadcast licensees, rather than biennially regardless of actual changes in ownership.

NAB is urging the FCC to update and simplify rules as "dramatic and continuing changes in the competitive environment over the past several decades obligate the Commission, under the Communications Act of 1934, to reexamine its existing broadcast regulations to ensure they still serve the public interest."

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