The below op-ed by NAB President and CEO Gordon H. Smith appeared in Broadcasting & Cable September 23. Nearly 30 years ago, Congress passed a …
300 MHz and I’ll Throw in Floor Mats: Why Haggling Won’t Help the C-band Proceeding
In the coming months, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will begin to make final policy determinations concerning a slice of spectrum known as the C-band. …
Siren Song in the C-Band
Over many months, the C-Band Alliance has worked with broadcasters to satisfy their concerns that giving up 40 percent of the eponymous spectrum used to …
The Disease of More: Getting to the Right Number, Not the Highest Number, for C-Band
The conventional wisdom in the communications arena is that the United States is engaged in a race to be the first nation to deploy the …
Bringing a Measure of Sanity to the FCC’s Children’s TV Rules
On Tuesday, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the FCC would be voting in July to approve modernized rules governing children’s programming …
First Informers: Hurricanes Florence and Michael
NAB and the Broadcast Education Association are pleased to present the sixth installment in a powerful video series demonstrating the indispensable role that local radio …
Common-Sense Reforms for Children’s TV
More than 20 years ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) created rules that require over-the-air TV broadcasters – and only over-the-air TV broadcasters …
Shake It Off, Taylor Swift’s Spectrum Advice
Our Love Story begins in 2009. As part of the National Broadband Plan, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had a bold idea to fix what …
The Negative Sum Game
Microsoft would have you believe their proposal to require broadcasters to hold open at least one additional channel in the broadcast band for unlicensed use …
Local Broadcasters: A Lifeline in Florida
Day in and day out across America local broadcasters are a trusted source of critical news and information. Never is that role more important than …