FCC Should Relax Ancillary Services Rules, Notice Requirements, NAB Says
The FCC should relax its ancillary services reporting requirements and eliminate, “or at least reform” application notice rules, NAB replied in docket 17-264 (see 1801020044). “The notice requirements are grossly outdated and inconsistent with how listeners and viewers obtain information…
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today,” NAB said. “They also impose unnecessary and disparate regulatory burdens, particularly on small and noncommercial broadcast licensees.” All broadcasters supported changes to the notice requirements, NAB said. Publisher objectors LNP and PNRC “have a vested business interest in maintaining rules mandating newspaper publications that have nothing to do with the public interest,” NAB said. The United Church of Christ Communication Office objected to the proposed changes to notice rules but didn’t establish that on-air and online notices are needed to inform consumers of broadcast applications, NAB said: “The FCC should continue its strong momentum to update its long list of media-specific rules and regulations.”