NAB's Smith Rejuvenates Broadcast Lobby

Urges industry to 'use all the tools'

Gordon Smith, the former Senator from Oregon who took leadership of the National Association of Broadcasters more than two years ago, is putting the clout back in the broadcast lobby.

In a speech before thousands of broadcasters, Smith took what has typically been an address on the state of the radio and TV businesses and turned it into a rallying cry for policy activism in the halls of Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission.

His remarks, in which he declared “NAB is back,” opened up the industry’s annual conference in Las Vegas, where station executives shop for broadcast equipment and software.

“In that room there was an overwhelming appreciation that we’ve dodged two very big bullets,” Smith told a group of reporters following his address.

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