The NAB’s top legal team, led by Chief Legal Officer and EVP/Legal and Regulatory Affairs Rick Kaplan, has told the FCC in a 55-page filing that the agency “has failed to reckon” with how “robust competition” from unregulated platforms dominated by “Big Tech” impacts broadcast stations and their ability to offer over-the-air services at no charge to the public.
The chief culprit, the NAB argues, is the FCC’s “asymmetric and overly burdensome
broadcast regulatory regime,” which Kaplan and his team say “should be reformed” to account for “undisputed – and indisputable – marketplace realities.”
