NAB Defends Ownership Change...As Far As It Goes

The National Association of Broadcasters weighed in Tuesday in support of the FCC's decision to loosen the newspaper/broadcast crossownership rules. Actually, broadcasters, including NAB, don't love the change. In fact they have taken the FCC to court over it because they believe it is not deregulatory enough. But in a filing at the FCC, the NAB came down in support of the rules change in an effort to counter the arguments of media-consolidation critics who say the rule change was too deregulatory. NAB called the FCC order a modest reform that made no changes to the local TV or radio ownership rules (NAB had wanted the FCC to loosen those, and excise the newspaper-broadcast crossownership ban entirely).
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