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NEW NABA LEADER: Rebecca Hanson was named the new director-general of the North American Broadcasters Association. She’ll succeed Michael McEwen, who will retire at the end of June.
Hanson is a former SVP of policy and strategy at Sinclair Broadcast Group and former general counsel for HC2 Broadcasting. She was a member of an FCC spectrum task force on the National Broadband Plan and has also held roles at Sprint Nextel, XM Satellite Radio and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. She serves on the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission and is the board of the NAB Leadership Foundation.
NABA said she will lead the group with “a strategy that includes resisting all forms of encroachment on broadcast spectrum, a continued commitment to broadcasting core values as a public good, and demonstrating other values that broadcasting offers in evolving communications.”
WAHL LOSES LICENSE: The FCC will revoke the license of Roger Wahl, who owns an FM station in Pennsylvania southeast of Pittsburgh.
Wahl pleaded guilty in 2020 to several crimes including secretly taking nude photos of a woman and impersonating her online.
The license of WQZS, a Class A FM on 93.3 in Meyersdale, was to be revoked barring a reconsideration appeal. The FCC said Wahl lacks the character qualifications to remain a licensee.
