Blumenthal Probes 8 FCC Investigations of Broadcasters Launched Under Carr

Blumenthal Probes 8 FCC Investigations of Broadcasters Launched Under Carr

Senate Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee ranking member Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is pressing the FCC's Enforcement and Media bureaus for information on investigations of broadcasters that commission Chairman Brendan Carr has ordered since taking over Jan. 20. The probes thus far...

Geoffrey Starks To Resign From FCC | Radio & Television Business Report

As the 11am Eastern hour began, the senior Democratic Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission revealed on social media platform X that he had just informed President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that he intends to resign “later this spring.” With Geoffrey Starks‘ exit coming just months after former Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel departed, this puts Anna Gómez in the top chair at an agency taking a vigorously dive…

Blumenthal Probes FCC’s ‘Intrusive Investigations’ Into Media Firms

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025 – Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., launched a congressional inquiry Thursday into what he described as the Federal Communication Commission’s politically motivated investigations into media broadcasters.Blumenthal wrote to the Acting Bureau Chiefs of the FCC’s Media and Enforcement Bureaus, Patrick Webre and Erin Boone, raising concerns that the FCC, under Chairman Brendan Carr, has been retaliating against news organ…