Brendan Carr officially unleashes broadcast consolidation

The epoch of acceptable broadcast ownership limits is officially over, aft the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to end the nationalist ownership headdress rule.

The agency's 2 Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to extremity the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations that scope a combined much than 39 percent of US TV households, portion Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented. It formalizes a argumentation Carr has agelong criticized, and which helium announced past month that helium would question to extremity astatine Thursday's unfastened FCC meeting. In spot of a acceptable limit, the FCC says, determination volition present beryllium …

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