About me
Barry D. Umansky is professor emeritus at Ball State University in Indiana. He also is a communications attorney who has represented broadcasters and other electronic media and has had an extensive career in government and industry.
Following graduation from college and law school, he served for seven years as an attorney doing communications policy work at the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) in Washington, D.C. Mr. Umansky then became Deputy General Counsel with the Washington-based National Association of Broadcasters ("NAB").
During his twenty years at the NAB, he had responsibilities for radio and television new technology and spectrum allocation issues, environmental and land use issues, station licensing and many other regulatory matters of key interest to broadcast stations and networks. At NAB he also produced and moderated legal and regulatory sessions at major NAB conventions and meetings, as well as traveled the country extensively to offer legal/regulatory compliance seminars for broadcast groups, state broadcaster associations and individual broadcast stations.
After NAB, he was engaged in the private practice of law for several years before joining Ball State as an academic. Umansky also is a former board member and Past-President of the Broadcast Education Association, based in Washington, DC.
From 2012 through 2022, he served on the FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee (“CAC”).
He is a graduate of Carleton College and the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.
