When your TV went haywire everyone used to say that the set was "on the fritz."

Well the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has been "on the fritz", and dead wrong for a long time.

That is because the NAB have been led by Edward O. Fritts in the wrong direction when it comes to helping first responders solve the spectrum crisis. Andrew Jay Schwartzman, president of the nonprofit Media Access Project and one of the broadcasting industry's most effective opponents, said, "... the fact is that the NAB has fought innovation rather than embracing it. It treated digital TV as an opportunity to hold the country hostage while it kept billions of dollars of publicly owned spectrum from being opened to competition."

So it's time to put Fritts and the NAB "on the fritz" and get the broadcasters to take responsibility for their actions which are directly impacting first responders in a negative way.