Five more House members signed on as co-sponsors...

Five more House members signed on as co-sponsors to the Local Radio Freedom Act (H. Con. Res. 16), said an NAB news release (http://bit.ly/1juGLeS) Tuesday: Reps. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio; Bill Foster, D-Ill.; Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash.; David Jolly, R-Fla.; and Derek Kilmer, D-Wash. The resolution has 231 co-sponsors in the House (http://1.usa.gov/1ksHOam). The resolution would oppose “'any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge’ on local broadcast radio stations,” said NAB. The musicFirst coalition is targeting Reps. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., and David Price, D-N.C., to condemn their support of the act (CD July 11 p13) .