NAB Distributing Congressional PSAs

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The National Association of Broadcasters said Thursday that
a record 244 members of Congress participated in its Congressional PSA
initiative.

More than 800 PSAs featuring those legislators are being
distributed to radio and TV stations, tailored to social and health issues of
particular interest to each legislators' constituents including breast cancer,
cyber bullying, distracted driving and mental health.

Some of the PSAs, available here, will be in Spanish.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.