In the blizzard of executive orders, Resolute desk pronouncements and mass firings of President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office, it’s easy to lose sight of what has been happening at the FCC and its chilling effect on the media. The agency typically gets few headlines, engaged as it is in…

Paramount Global moved a step closer to a deal, technically anyway, as the Securities and Exchange Commission made effective its registration statement outlining the transaction. It's a complicated process and can be a long one as the commission comes back with questions that need to be addressed to…

A group of Democratic senators say that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has been engaged in a “weaponization” of the agency to “punish, censor or intimidate” members of the press based on “political disagreement over editorial choices.” Among the instances cited in the letter — from Sen. Ed Markey…

UPDATED, with Carr comment: FCC chairman Brendan Carr has launched an investigation of Comcast’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, claiming that the programs may violate equal employment opportunity laws. On Wednesday, a Comcast spokesperson said, "We have received an inquiry from the…

Donald Trump on Thursday again called for CBS to lose its broadcast license in an early-morning rage post on social media, part of his latest effort to undermine and weaken the news media. The trigger was the 60 Minutes release of a full, unedited transcript of its interview with Kamala…

In one of his initial acts since becoming FCC chairman, Brendan Carr last month revived a complaint against CBS News over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election season. On Friday, in response to an FCC inquiry, the network said it…

CBS News said Friday that it will comply with an FCC letter of inquiry that it provide an unedited transcript of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The interview, which aired in the final weeks of the presidential election in October, did not involve Donald Trump. But in the segment…

New FCC chairman Brendan Carr has ordered the agency to launch an investigation into underwriting sponsorship announcements that air during PBS and NPR programming, suggesting they may cross the line “into prohibited commercial advertisements.” But in a letter Thursday to the heads of the two…

Brendan Carr, newly installed as chairman of the FCC under the new Trump administration, is reviving a trio of complaints aimed at NBC, ABC and CBS content, ones that his predecessor dismissed for being “at odds with the First Amendment.” The revived complaints come from the conservative Center…

Executives at Paramount Global are discussing, internally and informally, what it might take to settle a lawsuit by incoming President Donald Trump against CBS News centered around a 60 Minutes interview with his then rival Kamala Harris, Deadline has confirmed. Trump claimed the interview had…

The departing chairwoman of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, warned of efforts to tie the broadcast station license renewals to news content, as the agency dismissed a series of complaints brought from the left and the right. She did not name incoming President Donald Trump, who has threatened…

The incoming chairman of the FCC has fired off a letter to Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger referencing ABC’s recent settlement of a defamation lawsuit filed by Donald Trump, while also decrying the overall decline in public trust in the media, according to CNN. But Brendan Carr’s letter got into…