NAB: FCC Should Extend Political File Requirement To All Stations

The National Association of Broadcasters, which has taken the Federal Communications Commission to court over its online political file posting requirement, now tells the FCC that it should hold off on the organization's petition to reconsider the requirement until after it had extended the requirement, as planned, to all TV stations starting July 1, 2014.

The NAB said it still believes that "the FCC lacks statutory authority to require online political files [big stations or small] and that the Order's asymmetric, broadcast-only public and political file requirements are arbitrary and capricious," but said it thought the FCC needed to see how the requirement applied to smaller stations with fewer resources so it can get a better idea of its impact.