NAB attorneys met with lawyers in the FCC’s Office of...
NAB attorneys met with lawyers in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel and Media Bureau staff to discuss the commission’s DTV viewability rules, an ex parte notice shows (http://xrl.us/bna7zd). “During the meeting, we discussed various provisions of Section 614 of…
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the Communications Act, and their implications for the outcome of the proceeding,” the notice said. “We explained that an equipment-based approach to viewability would fail to satisfy multiple provisions of the statute, as well as its central purpose,” the notice said. And a coalition of must-carry broadcasters formed to elicit some help from Congress before the viewability rules expire next week. The Independent Voices for Local TV distributed a letter to Congress making the “urgent request that you contact the commission prior to June 11 and express your opposition to sunsetting the viewability rule.” The group counts 34 broadcast groups representing more than 210 TV stations among its members, which include Ion, Trinity Broadcast Network, the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, Daystar TV Network, Liberman Broadcasting and Northwest Broadcasting.