 The bill for an act to establish a regulatory authority for the broadcast industry in Nigeria has received mixed reaction from industry practitioners during a public hearing in the House of Representatives, whereas industry stakeholders wanted a self-regulatory authority to sanitize activities of its practitioners. Others, like the Niginbro-Castin Corporation and BC, thinks the status quo should remain. Our correspondent, Emmanuel A. General-Report, has presented from our studios. The call for the regulation of the broadcast industry to meet current realities has been on the front burner for some time now. Proponents of this call of thirds believe that just like other professional bodies, the broadcast industry needs to be regulated. If we have an act fund that is laterally backed up, we have ICANN, ANAN, NIPR, and the House of Others. Why should the profession of broadcasting be an exception? And so, when we talk about regulation, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker's representative and others, we are talking about looking for the ideal of regulation. What is the ideal? The ideal, by international standard, is self-regulation. So we need to look at a bill that is talking about how broadcasters can regulate themselves, not how public bodies can regulate themselves. And those public bodies should remember too that the media is no longer owned by government alone. The business of regulating and management of the spectrum and monitoring of the content is primarily the job of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, as assigned to it by law. What the Society of Nigerian Broadcasters, that is SMB in short, stands for is basically a meeting point for the practitioners. The Nigeria Broadcasting Commission, however, disagrees with this position, stating that its approval will amount to a duplication since the body already has a mandate to regulate the broadcast industry. We observe that the bill intends to regulate the practice of broadcasting profession in Nigeria. Therefore, the commission recommends that there is no need for the bill because there cannot be two regulatory bodies governing or regulating one profession. Chairman of the committee in his final submission promises to ensure that all submissions made will be looked into when the commission submits its report. We should jealously guide our profession to guide against all the fake world among us, the crack among us. That's the only way we can protect this industry. The debate on who regulates the broadcast industry continues, and until the bill is assented to by the president, the NBC remains its regulator.