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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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July N, 2014
WASHINGTON, A.M. -- The National Association of Broadcasters introduced at this time that Robert Weller, the Federal Communications Commission's Chief of Technical Analysis, will be a part of NAB as Vice President, Spectrum Policy on July 28, 2014. He will report back to Rick Kaplan, Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning.
Since 2008, Weller has led the FCC's group tasked with rulemaking and evaluation of spectrum coverage areas, together with radio propagation, interference, RF security, frequency allotments and new applied sciences. He has additionally served because the technical lead on broadcast protection and interference points through the Commission's broadcast spectrum incentive public sale continuing.
"NAB is happy so as to add somebody of Bob's caliber to our spectrum coverage employees," stated NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith. "His experience relating to broadcast spectrum points and his information of regulatory coverage might be priceless assets because the Commission strikes ahead on proceedings affecting broadcasting's future."
Weller first joined the FCC in 1984 as a radio inspector in its San Francisco Field Office earlier than departing in 1993 as director of its Denver District Office. Prior to rejoining the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology in 2007, Weller spent 14 years with the consulting agency of Hammett & Edison, the place he did work on broadcast techniques engineering, rising applied sciences, due diligence, and FCC rule-makings and purposes.
Weller holds a C.J. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.J. in Electromagnetics from The George Washington University. &#thirteen;
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