NAB Wants OMB to Block Foreign-Sponsored Content Rules
The FCC’s foreign-sponsored content rules don’t meet the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act and run “headlong into some of the most critical priorities of the Trump Administration,” said NAB in comments filed Monday with the OMB and FCC. The…
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rules and the related information collection “are at odds with recent administration directives to eliminate, modify and stop adopting/approving unlawful, burdensome regulations,” NAB said. The 2024 order for foreign-sponsored content requires standardized certifications from broadcasters and entities leasing programming time on whether a lessee is a foreign governmental entity. “The diligence requirements associated with the foreign sponsorship identification rules and related information collections are precisely the sorts of requirements that the current Administration expects federal agencies to repeal.” OMB should disapprove the rules, or “at least require the Commission to gather more data and develop more accurate estimates in connection with the proposed information collections,” NAB said. The group has also challenged the rule in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where oral argument in the case took place earlier this month (see 2504070019).