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Gordon Smith To Leave CEO Role At NAB
He will move to an advisory and advocacy role beginning next year. The former senator has led the broadcasters group for more than a decade. He s being succeeded by NAB s COO Curtis LeGeyt.
By TVN Staff | April 7, 2021 | 5:28 a.m. ET.
National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Gordon H. Smith announced today his plans to transition to an advisory and advocacy role effective Dec. 31, 2021. The organization’s Chief Operating Officer Curtis LeGeyt has been named the next president and CEO of NAB effective Jan. 1, 2022.
In a video message to members, Smith said, “It has been my great honor to give the lion’s roar for broadcasters – those who run into the storm, those who stand firm in chaos to hear the voice of the people, those who hold to account the powerful – and to stand with those of the fourth estate who have the hearts of public servants.”
National Association of Broadcasters announces that president and CEO
Gordon H. Smith will leave his position and transition to an advisory and advocacy role effective December 31, 2021. NAB’s chief operating officer
Curtis LeGeyt will become the next president and CEO of NAB effective January 1, 2022. In a video message to members, Smith said, “It has been my great honor to give the lion’s roar for broadcasters – those who run into the storm, those who stand firm in chaos to hear the voice of the people, those who hold to account the powerful – and to stand with those of the fourth estate who have the hearts of public servants.” Smith joined NAB as president and CEO in November 2009. Previously, he served as a two-term U.S. senator from Oregon and later as senior advisor in the Washington offices of
A federal judge granted
summary judgment on February 12 to DirecTV, LLC (DirecTV), holding it was not liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for unsolicited telemarketing calls placed by a third-party vendor because DirecTV had clearly instructed the vendor not to make any cold calls.
The class action,
Cordoba et al. v. DirecTV, alleged that DirecTV had violated the TCPA by authorizing a call center vendor, Telecel Marketing Solutions, LLC (Telecel), to place telemarketing calls to solicit subscriptions on DirecTV’s behalf without obtaining the called party’s consent. Specifically, Cordoba argued that Telecel had not kept an internal do-not-call list or respected do-not-call requests, placing unconsented-to telemarketing calls to nearly 17,000 individuals, and claimed that DirecTV knew of and authorized those calls. Telecel, an independent contractor, received commissions for each customer that activated service with DirecTV.