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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Speaks to the Kimmel Cancelation and Requirements of Holding an FCC License

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell : Sep 18, 2025  RedState

[RedState.com] ...Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission appeared on Fox News' "Hannity" to draw the bright line between how an organization that holds an FCC license is required to operate as opposed to a cable or streaming organization like Fox News or CNN. "Broadcasters are different than any other form of communication, including here. We're on cable right now. Fox News doesn't have an FCC license, CNN doesn't. But ABC, CBS, NBC, those broadcast stations do. And with that license comes a unique obligation to operate in the public interest. And over the years, the FCC walked away from enforcing that public interest obligation. I don't think we're better off as a country for it. But look, President Trump ran directly at these legacy broadcast outlets and he exposed them to these market forces, and a lot of these affiliate groups said, to your point, 'We're tired of carrying this stuff.' Late night shows, something's gone seriously awry there. They went from going from laugh lines to applause lines, from being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics enforcing a very narrow political ideology. And Nexstar, as you noted, stood up and said, look, we have the license and we don't want to run this anymore; we don't think it serves the interest of our community. Sinclair did the same thing. ... I'm very glad to see that America's broadcasters are standing up to sort of the interests of their communities, so we don't just have this progressive foie gras coming out from New York and Hollywood..." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via Fox Business)







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