Brendan Carr

A letter to the FCC signed by Senate Democrats complained that the “FCC’s role in overseeing the public airwaves does not give it the power to act as a roving press censor”

She called ABC’s decision a “cowardly corporate capitulation” to threats from the FCC to suspend broadcast licenses that have no legal basis in “facts or the law”

The network made the move after FCC Chair Carr attacked the late night show for "sick" comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk and threatened licenses of stations who aired it

The regular review of broadcast ownership rules will be on the agency’s September agenda, said Chair Brendan Carr

The agency needs to move `expeditiously’ to approve the NAB’s proposed ATSC sunset Sinclair’s McFadden wrote in a letter describing the meeting

Courtney Cowper will be responsible for managing administrative operations, scheduling, and travel arrangements for the FCC's chairman

About 5% of all TV and radio stations are selected for Equal Employment Opportunity audits each year; this year’s letters ask for new information relating to DEI

Agency veteran will serve as its principal technical adviser

FCC is already working on spectrum management and other issues related to the upcoming games, the agency reported

In a letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, FCC chair Brendan Carr expressed concerns that NBC and other networks are attempting ‘to extract onerous financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations’