On Thursday, new FCC chairman Brendan Carr, a Project 2025 author and right-wing critic of the media, launched probes into ...

“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal ... broadcasting stations of who their sponsors are.

After last week's congressional hearing with the heads of PBS and NPR, it's important to remember how public broadcasting works, what it does and whom it serves, our television critic says.

But recently, Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), launched an investigation of NPR and PBS, saying it appears that their corporate underwriting spots ...

Public broadcasters were created with the help and support of the federal government, which makes them particularly ...

NPR did not respond to request for comment. NPR and PBS are also in the middle of the investigation from the FCC. Carr in January argued that both organization’s member stations were ...

Carr is probing whether PBS and NPR violated government rules preventing ... “complies with federal regulations, including the FCC guidelines on underwriting messages for noncommercial ...

Kerger, respectively. “In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.” The ...

"We work diligently to comply with the FCC’s underwriting regulations and welcome the opportunity to demonstrate that to the Commission." Carr told PBS and NPR that members of Congress would be ...