Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency has opened enforcement proceedings against The View. The action centers on whether the ABC program properly qualifies as “bona fide news.” This exemption allows certain news content to air political candidates without triggering equal time obligations. Brendan Carr says FCC has started ‘enforcement proceedings’ against ABC’s…
FCC Chair Brendan Carr addressed the dispute involving Stephen Colbert and Senate candidate James Talarico. He rejected claims of censorship and called the incident a “hoax” amid mounting public scrutiny. Brendan Carr talks about Stephen Colbert-James Talarico controversy Brendan Carr addressed the controversy surrounding The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and an interview with Texas…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, Brendan Carr, has confirmed that major US online retail websites have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics. In an interview with the news agency Reuters, Carr stated that the removed items were either on a US list of barred equipment or were not authorised by the agency….
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Communications Commission will vote this month to tighten restrictions on telecommunications equipment made by Chinese companies deemed national security risks, the latest in a series of U.S. actions targeting Beijing. The U.S. telecom regulator previously named companies including Huawei Technologies, ZTE, Hangzhou Hikvision, China Mobile and China Telecom…
In 2007, eight years after becoming Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez revoked the license of the country’s oldest private television station. Eight months into his second term, President Donald Trump suggested revoking the licenses of U.S. television stations he believes are overly critical of him. Since he returned to office in January, Trump’s remaking of the…
Donald Trump finally weighed in on Jimmy Kimmel‘s return to the air on Tuesday, with a not-so-veiled threat that his administration would still go after ABC. Trump posted on Truth Social, “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!…
It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet. The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show taken off the…
The death of democracy won’t be televised. The FCC, this administration and spineless media conglomerates like Nexstar and Disney will make sure of that. If “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is over — and I fear there’s no coming back from what Disney did to him on Wednesday — then it’s going to be over the most…
The US Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it plans to adopt rules to bar companies from connecting undersea submarine communication cables to the United States that include Chinese technology or equipment. “We have seen submarine cable infrastructure threatened in recent years by foreign adversaries, like China,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr said in a statement….
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it plans to adopt rules to bar companies from connecting undersea submarine communication cables to the United States that include Chinese technology or equipment. “We have seen submarine cable infrastructure threatened in recent years by foreign adversaries, like China,” FCC Chair Brendan Carr…