WASHINGTON—NAB officials continued their push to end strict ownership caps on station groups during a recent meeting with Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Olivia Trusty and her Senior Legal Advisor Marcus Maher. In addition, the NAB stressed the importance of expeditious FCC action on the pending 2022 quadrennial ownership review, given the vital need for elimination (or at least substantial reform) of the 30-year-old local radio ownership caps. The filing noted that the NAB’s representatives began by reemphasizing the urgent need to repeal the analog-era national TV ownership limit. In terms of the pending quadrennial review, the filing stressed that “[l]ocal radio broadcasters cannot survive in today’s digital audio and advertising markets while hamstrung by three decades-old restrictions on their scale. Get the TV Tech Newsletter The professional video industry's #1 source for news, trends and product and tech information.