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What's next for NPR, PBS and public media after Congress voted to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
At what point do we stop calling the 'Late Show' cancelation "just a business decision" and start calling it slow, strategic ...
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says NPR and PBS may be "broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements." The networks say their broadcasts comply ...
“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing. commercials,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr wrote to the news outlets in a letter first obtained by The New York ...
The FCC’s enforcement bureau is being asked to open the investigation, Carr wrote, adding that he is concerned that the PBS and NPR broadcasts “could be violating the law by airing commercials.” ...
Brendan Carr, the President Trump-appointed FCC chairman, warned the CEOs of PBS and NPR that they “could be violating federal law by airing commercials” — and that he has ordered an ...
NPR and PBS programming is aired to a network of around 1,500 member stations, all of which choose which programs to broadcast. The stations require licenses approved by the FCC to operate, and these ...
Trump’s hand-picked FCC head Carr launches investigations into NPR and PBS FCC head and Project 2025 contributor Brendan Carr says the broadcasters' stations could be breaking ad laws ...
Trump’s New FCC Head Orders Probe of NPR and PBS Funding. One commissioner called it an attempt to “weaponize” the power of the federal agency ...
On average, NPR receives about 1% of its funding directly from the federal government each year, according to publicly available materials. PBS receives 16%, according to a network spokesperson. On ...
President Trump's new head of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting. "I am ...