Bill Lake, a veteran communications lawyer, has joined the Washington law firm’s TMT Telecom, Media & Technology practice.
JESSELL AT LARGE
NAB Needs To Get Spectrum Act Together
The FCC plan to reclaim a big block of broadcast spectrum is the most critical issue facing broadcasters in the past three decades. So it’s perplexing that they chose this time to shut down MSTV, their longtime spectrum policy lobby, and to diss NAB’s top tech exec. Those moves raise the stakes in NAB’s hiring of a new EVP of technology. The right person keeps broadcasting in the game. The wrong person puts it on the same grim road as newspapers.
