On June 24, 2024, Jerald Fritz, Executive Vice President for Strategic and Legal Affairs at ONE Media Technologies, LLC, a subsidiary of Sinclair, Inc., has announced his retirement. After a career spanning more than 55 years in and around the broadcast and communications industries, Fritz will step down on July 1, 2024. For the past decade, Fritz has been responsible for the long-term strategic planning and public policy for ONE Media, supporting the adoption and deployment of the broadcast industry?s NextGen Broadcast (ATSC 3.0) transmission standard.

Throughout his tenure, Fritz also played a critical role in shaping ONE Media?s and Sinclair?s national and international spectrum use and intellectual property positions. His work on the adoption of ATSC 3.0 as a global digital broadcast standard was recently recognized by the North American Broadcasters Association with its prestigious International Achievement Award. Fritz joined ONE Media from Allbritton Communications Company and POLITICO where he served as General Counsel and Director of Strategic Affairs for nearly 30 years.

Previously, he served as the Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, where he was a key member of the team that pushed to deregulate the broadcasting and telecommunications industries including abolishing the Fairness Doctrine, dramatic loosening of station ownership rules, implementing the AT&T divestiture, approving the first cellular phone service, and deregulating long distance rates. He had a hand in helping to form multiple new ventures including the nation?s first local cable news channel and launching POLITICO. Prior to joining the Chairman?s staff, Fritz was in private practice at Pierson Ball & Dowd specializing in communications law, held several staff positions at the FCC and taught on the adjunct faculty at George Mason University Law School.

Fritz has also served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Broadcasters, where he chaired the NAB-X.com Task Force, served on the Digital Television Implementation Team and the EEO and Copyright Committees. He is a past Governor of the ABC Affiliates Association and was former chair of its Government Relations Committee. Fritz is also a former Governing Committee member and Division Chair of the American Bar Association?s Communications Law Forum and a past co-chair of the Pre-Publication Review Committee for the Media Law Resource Center.

He has been a mainstay on the NAB?s Broadcast Leadership Training Program?s faculty for a quarter century.