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🇺🇸 Brendan Carr says his broadcast license threat wasn’t really about Iran war coverage
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr never meant to threaten broadcast licenses over their coverage of the war in Iran, he told report...
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🇺🇸 FCC Chairman Brendan Carr And Gavin Newsom Clash Over Nexstar-Tegna Merger, Censorship And Jimmy KimmelThe 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...
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🇺🇸 How the FCC Could Quietly Smother Network TV — Without Banning Free Speech
Commissioner Brendan Carr is ushering broadcast TV into a terrifying new era under Trump....
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🇺🇸 FCC bans import of new consumer routers made overseas, citing security risks
The FCC ban will affect the import of all new, foreign-made consumer routers, the agency's head Brendan Carr said....
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🇺🇸 Politicians “Disappear” From ‘The View’ After Trump’s FCC Threat — and a Big Test Is Ahead
The ABC panel show hasn't had any political guests on since the FCC announced it was investigating it. That changed today as the network fights the fe...
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🇺🇸 Foreign Investments in Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Flagged by Democratic Senators in FCC Letter
The senators called for a full review of investments from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and Tencent, which they say could influence editorial ...
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🇺🇸 Democratic Senators Call For “Full And Independent” FCC Review Of Foreign Ownership In Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery MergerA group of Democratic senators is calling for FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to conduct a “full and independent” review Paramount’s proposed acquisition of...
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🇺🇸 Newsmax, DirecTV And Broadband Groups Appeal FCC’s Approval Of Nexstar-Tegna Merger, Call Out Trump’s Directive To “Get That Deal Done!”
As state attorneys seek to stop Nexstar’s merger with Tegna, a new group is appealing the FCC’s greenlight to the massive broadcast merger, calling ou...
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🇺🇸 Democratic Senators Demand FCC Conduct Foreign Investment Review of Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Over Backing by Middle Eastern Funds, China’s TencentThe FCC must conduct a “thorough review” of the foreign investors backing Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion proposed deal to acquire Warner Bros. Disc...
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🇺🇸 Like it or not, the FCC’s equal opportunity rule must be enforcedWhen it comes to promoting candidates for political office, the FCC is obligated to enforce the congressionally approved Section 315 rules....
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🇺🇸 8 states file emergency motion to block Nexstar-Tegna merger after FCC approvalCalifornia and seven other states filed an emergency motion on Friday to stop the merger of broadcasting companies Nexstar and Tegna, a corporate tie-...
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🇺🇸 FCC approves the merger of local television owners Nexstar and Tegna
The FCC has approved the sale of Tegna television stations to rival Nexstar Media Group Thursday. The deal would create a company that owns 259 televi...
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🇺🇸 FCC approves merger of local television owners Nexstar and Tegna as two lawsuits seek to block it
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said it had approved the merger of local television giants Nexstar Media Group and rival Tegna, the ...
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🇺🇸 FCC approves Nexstar's purchase of Tegna hours after lawsuits sought to block deal
The FCC announced Thursday that it had approved the $6.2 billion merger of major broadcast station owners Nexstar and Tegna....
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🇺🇸 Nexstar secures merger with TEGNA after FCC, DOJ approvalThe Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice have cleared Nexstar Media Group's acquisition of fellow local broadcaster TEGNA, the ...
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🇺🇸 FCC greenlights Nexstar's $6.2B merger with rival TV station owner TegnaThe Federal Communications Commission has signed off on broadcast station owner Nexstar’s $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival company Tegna, a merger t...
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🇺🇸 Nexstar Claims Its $6.2 Billion Deal for Tegna Has Closed Following DOJ, FCC Approvals — After Eight States, DirecTV Sued to Block ItNexstar Media Group said it “has closed its acquisition” of Tegna in a $6.2 billion deal that would following approval of the transaction from the FCC...
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🇺🇸 Nexstar Says It Has Closed Merger With Tegna After Greenlight From FCC And Justice Department
Nexstar said on Thursday that they had closed their acquisition of Tegna following approvals from the FCC and the Justice Department. The merger, whic...
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🇺🇸 FCC Enforcement Chief Offered to Help Brendan Carr Target Disney, Records ShowLast year, as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monologue, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged su...
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🇺🇸 FCC chair’s threats over Iran news coverage are ‘intolerable in a free society’
'Every constitutional guarantee is under attack, but the freedom of the press is sacred to the health of this nation, especially at this moment in his...
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🇺🇸 Hakeem Jeffries Vows An Investigation Of Brendan Carr After FCC Chairman’s Threat To BroadcastersHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is warning FCC Chairman Brendan Carr that he will be investigated “in short order” following his threat to pull ...
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🇺🇸 For Trump’s FCC Chairman, Trolling Liberals Is the Point in His Threat to Pull Licenses of TV Networks That Air ‘Fake News’ About Iran WarOver the weekend, Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed FCC chair, scored another win in an area he seems to believe is a key part of his job: rage-baitin...
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🇺🇸 Trump says he’s ‘thrilled’ to see Brendan Carr looking at FCC licenses of news organizationsPresident Trump on Sunday said he was “thrilled” to see the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr reviewing license renewal appli...
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🇺🇸 Gavin Newsom Slams FCC Chairman’s Broadcaster Threat Over Iran War Coverage As A “Dictators’ Playbook” As He Teases Presidential Run – SXSWGavin Newsom responded to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s weekend salvo against broadcasters and their coverage of the Iran War in a lengthy interview at ...
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🇺🇸 Jane Fonda’s Committee For The First Amendment Issues Response To FCC Chair Threats Against Broadcasters’ Iran War CoverageAhead of Oscars Sunday, Jane Fonda’s recently relaunched Committee for the First Amendment released a statement condemning and warning about escalatin...
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🇺🇸 Democrats blast FCC Chair Carr's broadcast license threats as anti-First Amendment, 'totalitarian'
Carr on Saturday blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes "fake news."...
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🇬🇧 Republican rebukes FCC chair’s threats to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war<p>Senator Ron Johnson pushes back, saying he’s not in favor of government meddling in freedom of speech</p><p>The Federal Communications Commission (...
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🇺🇸 F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War CoverageThe comment from Brendan Carr came on the heels of a social media message from President Trump criticizing the news media’s coverage of the war with I...
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🇺🇸 Trump says TV networks covering him negatively should "maybe" have their licenses revoked
On Thursday, ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off the air after the FCC chairman hinted at action against ABC over comments the comedian had made about the suspe...
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🇺🇸 FCC Chair Brendan Carr Says Broadcasters Must “Correct Course” Amid Iran War Coverage Criticism or “They Will Lose Their Licenses”
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...
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🇺🇸 FCC chair Brendan Carr says broadcast licenses are not a "property right"
In an exclusive interview with CBS News Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his warning that broadcast licenses could ...
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🇺🇸 FCC chair slams broadcasters after Trump disputes reports on Iran-damaged U.S. tankers
FCC Chair Brendan Carr blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes "fake news."...
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🇺🇸 FCC chair threatens networks' licenses as Trump criticizes Iran war coverage
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr did not name specific networks, but his post included a reference to a Saturday morning Truth Soc...
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🇺🇸 FCC chair calls Colbert 'censorship' controversy a 'hoax' orchestrated for clicks and donationsBrendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, says he's not trying to censor anyone and certainly didn't order CBS not to air an inter...
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🇺🇸 FCC chair slams Amazon for slow satellite launches after it opposed SpaceX data center plan
Amazon asked the FCC for a waiver or 24-month extension to meet a July 2026 deadline to deploy 1,600 internet satellites....
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🇺🇸 FCC chief tells CNBC WBD-Paramount merger deal is ‘cleaner’ than Netflix's, will be approved 'quickly'
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told CNBC on Tuesday that Netflix's previous Warner Bros. Discovery offer "raised a lot of competition concerns."...
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🇺🇸 The most patriotic thing broadcasters can do for America's 250thFCC 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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🇺🇸 Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free ExpressionTrump appointees have transformed the F.T.C. and F.C.C. into instruments of ideological enforcement....
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🇺🇸 Trump Administration Uses ‘Equal Time’ Rule to Reshape Late-Night TVThe F.C.C. is using a century-old broadcast rule to take aim at hosts like Stephen Colbert. The impact could reshape how talk shows handle politics....
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🇺🇸 FCC chairman says the agency is investigating ABC's 'The View' over equal time ruleThe Federal Communications Commission is investigating ABC's "The View" over possible violations of the requirement that broadcast stations give equal...
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🇺🇸 Details on controversy over Stephen Colbert's interview with James Talarico
"The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert again claimed on Tuesday night that CBS told him not to air an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate J...
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🇺🇸 Colbert Slams Trump Administration After CBS Pulls Talarico InterviewStephen Colbert said he had to drop an interview with James Talarico from his Monday broadcast because of new F.C.C. guidance that targeted political ...
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🇺🇸 Democratic Senate candidate caught in FCC clash after CBS pulls his interview on Colbert show
The Trump administration's crackdown on political bias in broadcast television has spilled into the Texas Senate race....
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🇺🇸 Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert said CBS did not air his Monday interview with Senate candidate Rep....
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