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FCC seeks to shift power from national programmers to local broadcasters in public interest push

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr proposes shifting media influence from national networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC back to local ...
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FCC’s Brendan Carr Says Late-Night Is Dying Because Stephen Colbert, Others, Have Gone From ‘Court Jesters’ to Anti-Trump ‘Court Clerics’

They stopped going for joke lines and laugh lines and they started going for applause lines,’ the FCC chairman says.

Brendan Carr declares victory over the First Amendment

Turns out a new Fairness Doctrine is just fine under Trump’s FCC.

Brendan Carr Defends Timing of Paramount Merger Approval: ‘We Ran Normal Course’ | Video

Brendan Carr defended the timing of federal approval for the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media, with the Federal ...
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FCC Initiates Second Investigation of Comcast and NBCUniversal This Year

The Federal Communications Commission has launched another investigation into NBCUniversal and its parent company, Comcast, ...

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Probes Comcast Relations With NBC Stations

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sent a letter to Comcast on Tuesday announcing a probe of the company's relations with NBC ...
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‘Press Freedom’ Organization Goes After FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, for His Efforts To Challenge Liberal Media Bias, Demands He Be Disbarred

The Freedom of the Press Foundation — a controversial group best known for its alliance with Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks — ...
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CBS agreement with FCC includes hiring a “bias monitor” in “major attack” on free speech

CBS parent company Paramount recently reached an $8.4 billion merger agreement with Skydance Media, a deal the current ...
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr investigates NBC over affiliate deals

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has opened a formal inquiry into Comcast’s NBC Universal over co ...
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Is the FCC coming for Comcast?

After targeting Paramount and Disney, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is eyeing Comcast’s NBCUniversal and its network of local ...
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Fox News Host Confronts Trump’s FCC Chair On Claim That He Wants ‘Fair’ News Coverage: Does That Mean ‘More Favorable to This President?’

Fox News host Howard Kurtz confronted FCC Chair Brendan Carr on whether he's seeking "fair" news coverage — or coverage "more favorable" to President Trump. The post Fox News Host Confronts Trump’s ...

Freedom of the Press Foundation Files Disciplinary Complaint Against Brendan Carr, Alleges Ethics Violations

The Freedom of the Press Foundation has filed a disciplinary complaint letter against Brendan Carr, accusing the Federal ...