Brendan Carr

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’

The regulator highlighted Skydance’s commitment to end DEI, provide “unbiased” news coverage and invest in "localism"

The ruling ‘makes clear the deregulatory intent that Congress had when it set the FCC down on this path of the quadrennial reviews,’ Carr says

NAB, FCC chair Brendan Carr applaud 8th Circuit’s ruling overturning FCC rules that station groups can’t own more than one of the four most-watched TV stations in a market