NAB Lobbies FCC's Berry for FM Interference Action, Reconsidering 'Embedded Markets'
NAB General Counsel Rick Kaplan lobbied FCC Chief of Staff Matthew Berry in support of Connoisseur Media’s petition for reconsideration so "embedded markets" don't artificially limit station ownership and for action on the association's petition for rulemaking to deal efficiently…
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with interference between FM translators and full powers. Such a suburban radio market also is considered part of parent markets, which cover an entire metropolitan area (see 1707070064). "Station groups in New York, NY, and Washington, DC. may be artificially and unreasonably limited in the number of stations they can acquire in embedded markets due to the local ownership limit in the parent market," Kaplan wrote in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 14-50. "Stations in embedded markets do not compete across other embedded markets, and they do not compete in their parent markets." Kaplan sought an NPRM on FM interference that "remains a persistent problem."