The NAB made the comments in a filing for the FCC’s 2022 Quadrennial Review of ownership rules. Congress requires the agency to review those rules every four years, a process that has been delayed in recent years by court rulings.

For several years FCC Commissioner, and now chairman, Brendan Carr has aligned himself with the deregulatory policies of President Donald Trump. Indeed, then Commissioner Carr was the author of a chapter of the Heritage Foundation “Project 2025” where ...

But then Donald Trump won a second term in office and promoted Commissioner Carr to the position of FCC chairman in January 2025. A few weeks later, Trump issued an executive order declaring that historically independent agencies could no longer operate independently from the White House.

Brendan Carr, President Donald Trump's new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has told NPR and PBS that they're under investigation. The investigation will revolve around NPR and PBS airing sponsorships across their 1,500-plus member ...

NPR CEO Katherine Maher is speaking out about the ongoing investigation, led partly by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, into the network’s sponsorship practices and whether they resemble commercial advertisements, potentially violating federal guidelines.