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Brendan Carr

American lawyer (born 1979)

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Media Regulation (6)
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Broadcast Licensing (1)
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Regulatory Oversight (1)
Regulatory Critique (1)
Ethical Governance (1)
Political Accountability (1)
International Conflict (1)
Government Oversight (1)

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📖 Key Information

Brendan Thomas Carr (born January 5, 1979) is an American lawyer who has served as the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since 2025. Carr has additionally been a commissioner at the FCC since 2017. Carr studied government at Georgetown University and graduated from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America in 2005.

📰 Related News (9)

🇺🇸 Brendan Carr says his broadcast license threat wasn’t really about Iran war coverage (2026-03-26)
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr never meant to threaten broadcast licenses over their coverage of the war in Iran, he told report...
🇺🇸 FCC Chairman Brendan Carr And Gavin Newsom Clash Over Nexstar-Tegna Merger, Censorship And Jimmy Kimmel (2026-03-26)
The Nexstar-Tegna merger is being challenged in the courts on a number of fronts, but in the meantime it’s the source of a political clash between Cal...
🇺🇸 FCC Enforcement Chief Offered to Help Brendan Carr Target Disney, Records Show (2026-03-19)
Last year, as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monologue, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged su...
🇺🇸 Brendan Carr, the FCC, and the Banality of Evil (2026-03-17)
The man leading Trump’s media vendetta is a brown-nosing bureaucrat. And that’s what makes him dangerous...
🇺🇸 Hakeem Jeffries Vows An Investigation Of Brendan Carr After FCC Chairman’s Threat To Broadcasters (2026-03-16)
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is warning FCC Chairman Brendan Carr that he will be investigated “in short order” following his threat to pull ...
🇺🇸 Trump says he’s ‘thrilled’ to see Brendan Carr looking at FCC licenses of news organizations (2026-03-16)
President Trump on Sunday said he was “thrilled” to see the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr reviewing license renewal appli...
🇺🇸 FCC Chair Brendan Carr Says Broadcasters Must “Correct Course” Amid Iran War Coverage Criticism or “They Will Lose Their Licenses” (2026-03-15)
Carr's comments were made on X as he responded to a post Trump wrote on Truth Social that slammed "an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake Ne...
🇺🇸 FCC chair Brendan Carr says broadcast licenses are not a "property right" (2026-03-15)
In an exclusive interview with CBS News Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his warning that broadcast licenses could ...
🇺🇸 The most patriotic thing broadcasters can do for America's 250th (2026-02-25)
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has urged broadcasters to air patriotic programming in celebration of America's 250th birthday, but a better idea would be t...

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List of wars involving Iran · 1 shared articles
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