FCC’s Brendan Carr also suggests an investigation could be relevant to conservative congressional efforts to defund the ...

Brendan Carr, the new head of the Federal Communications Commission under President Trump, says the public broadcasters are ...

The chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching an investigation into NPR and PBS over their alleged “airing of commercials.” “I am concerned that NPR and PBS ...

Carr, 46, explained that his specific concern is related to corporate underwriting announcements broadcast by NPR and PBS member stations, which may violate rules prohibiting public broadcasters ...

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is launching an investigation into nonprofits NPR and PBS that a free speech advocate calls "troubling." ...

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 ...

With the change in leadership at the FCC, Chairman Brendan Carr selected Erin Boone to serve as Acting Media Bureau Chief.

Continuing Donald Trump’s attacks on press independence, newly appointed Federal Communications Commission chair Brandan Carr on Thursday ordered an investigation into sponsorships of NPR and ...

Federal Communications Commission commissioner Anna M. Gomez has announced a new appointment to her staff as well as some ...

Federal Communications Commission commissioner Nathan Simington announced that he has appointed Adam Cassady to serve as his chief of staff. Simington made the move after his previous chief of staff, ...

The FCC does not directly regulate the two networks. Instead, it evaluates the actions of roughly 1,500 public broadcasting stations across the country, which hold licenses granted by the FCC for ...

The stations require licenses approved by the FCC to operate, and these licenses limit them as non-commercial educational broadcast stations, which are prohibited by federal law from airing ...