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On Tuesday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appeared on a podcast hosted by Katie Miller, wife of deputy White House chief of staff for policy Stephen ... Read More
Carr on Tuesday ordered an early license review of Disney's eight owned and operated ABC stations.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is a MAGA loyalist, but he thinks the Republican-controlled FCC stepped over the line in accelerating the renewal process for broadcast licenses of Disney’s eight ABC-owned local TV stations — seemingly in response to a joke Jimmy Kimmel told about Melania Trump on late-night television.
Brendan Carr is shedding some light on the FCC's ongoing "investigation" into The View. The Trump administration's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair said in a Tuesday, April 28 interview on The Katie Miller Podcast that the FCC has "raised serious questions" with the long-running ABC talk show.
Critics — including commissioners in the agency — have accused FCC chair Brendan Carr of bullying media companies into bowing to conservative policy goals.
Four items appear on the FCC's May Open Meeting agenda, including an order to modernize the Disaster Information Reporting System, where outage information is reported during emergencies. Brendan Carr offers a preview of all that's up for discussion on May 20.