The NAB is keeping pressure on the FCC to relax radio ownership limits under the 2022 Quadrennial Review, with Chief Legal Officer Rick Kaplan warning that caps written for a world of transistors and newspapers threaten the survival of local journalism and service. In a new episode of the NAB Podcast, NAB Vice President of Media Relations Alex Siciliano spoke with Kaplan about how the decades-old regulations restrict local broadcasters’ ability to grow and compete.

“At one time, when broadcast stations and networks were the only game in town,” Kaplan remarked, “There may have been reasons why the commission, the FCC in this case, would want to limit the reach of broadcasters across the country. These days, the landscape is so different from when the FCC was first formed in the late 20s and 1930s. We have things that we’ve never even conceived of back then. But the defining feature of most of them is that they reach the entire country, if not the entire globe.”

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