{"id":884475,"date":"2026-01-12T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/after-npr-and-pbs-defunding-fcc-receives-call-to-take-away-station-licenses\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:22:27","slug":"after-npr-and-pbs-defunding-fcc-receives-call-to-take-away-station-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/after-npr-and-pbs-defunding-fcc-receives-call-to-take-away-station-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The CAR complaints were dismissed<\/a> in January 2025 by then-FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and then revived by Carr<\/a> after Trump appointed him to the chairmanship. Carr has continued making allegations of news distortion, including when he threatened to revoke<\/a> licenses from ABC stations that air Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

During the Kimmel controversy, Carr said he was trying \u201cto empower local TV stations to serve the needs of the local communities.\u201d The FCC subsequently opened a proceeding<\/a> titled, \u201cEmpowering Local Broadcast TV Stations to Meet Their Public Interest Obligations: Exploring Market Dynamics Between National Programmers and Their Affiliates.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FCC invited public comments on whether to adopt regulations \u201cin light of the changes in the broadcast market that have led to anticompetitive leverage and behavior by large networks.\u201d This could involve prohibiting certain kinds of contract provisions in agreements between networks and affiliate stations and strengthening the rights of local stations to reject national programming.<\/p>\n

FCC criticized for attacks on media<\/h2>\n

The \u201cEmpowering Local Broadcast TV Stations\u201d proceeding is the one in which the Center for American Rights submitted its comments. Besides discussing NPR and PBS, the group said that national networks \u201cindoctrinate the American people from their left-wing perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe consistent bias on ABC\u2019s The View<\/em>, for instance, tells women in red states who voted for President Trump that they are responsible for putting in office an autocratic dictator,\u201d the Center for American Rights said.<\/p>\n

The FCC proceeding drew comments<\/a> yesterday from the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), which criticized Carr\u2019s war against the media. \u201cThe Public Notice frames this proceeding as an effort to \u2018empower local broadcasters\u2019 in their dealings with national networks. But\u2026 recent FCC actions have risked using regulatory authority not to promote independent journalism, but to influence newsroom behavior, constrain editorial decision-making, and encourage outcomes aligned with the personal or political interests of elected officials,\u201d the NHMC said.<\/p>\n

The group said it supports \u201cgenuine local journalism and robust competition,\u201d but said:<\/p>\n

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policies that reshape the balance of power between station groups, networks, and newsrooms cannot be separated from the broader regulatory environment in which they operate. Several of the Commission\u2019s recent interventions\u2014including coercive conditions attached to the Skydance\/Paramount transaction<\/a>, and unlawful threats made to ABC and its affiliate stations in September demanding they remove Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show from the airwaves\u2014illustrate how regulatory tools can be deployed in ways that undermine media freedom and risk political interference in programming and editorial decisions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n

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The CAR complaints were dismissed in January 2025 by then-FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and then revived by Carr after Trump appointed him to the chairmanship. Carr has continued making allegations of news distortion, including when he threatened to revoke licenses from ABC stations that air Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show. During the Kimmel controversy, Carr said he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,38056],"tags":[5078,118452],"class_list":{"0":"post-884475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-after","8":"category-defunding","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-defunding"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}