NABOB Meets With Starks Aide on Geotargeted Radio Proposal

The FCC should ignore “dubious claims” that geotargeting would be uneconomical for FM broadcasters because those considerations are “far outside the FCC’s public interest analysis,” said National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters President Jim Winston in a meeting with an aide to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks Friday, according to an ex parte filing in docket 20-401. The FCC can defer to the business judgment of its licensees, Winston said. “There is broad support for this proposal among small and minority-owned broadcasters,” said the filing, posted Wednesday.