NAB Calls for Changes in Foreign-Sponsored Content Draft Language
The FCC should change a draft order on foreign-sponsored content to clarify that the rules on disclosure of foreign sponsorship and certifications that companies aren’t foreign agents apply only to leased programming, not advertisements, NAB said in meetings Tuesday with…
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Commissioner Geoffrey Starks and aides to Commissioners Brendan Carr and Anna Gomez, according to an ex parte filing in docket 20-299 (see 2403210071. The FCC “need only make clear” that language describing “short form advertising” as exempt from the rules means all advertising, NAB said. The FCC should avoid using language that inadvertently loops in longer infomercials, political ads or public service announcements, the group said. “Trying to provide a specific definition for advertising could easily lead to more problems,” NAB said. “An overlay of new diligence and disclosure rules” on top of the existing sponsorship ID rules “would be beyond the scope of the Notice in this proceeding and otherwise violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the First Amendment, and the FCC’s statutory authority,” the filing said. “NAB also reminds the Commission that no one has filed in support of the FCC proposals.”