Brendan Carr plans to let broadcast giants dominate the airwaves

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The Federal Communications Commission volition ballot adjacent period connected whether a azygous institution tin ain broadcast stations that scope much than 39 percent of US TV households.

In a Breitbart op-ed connected Wednesday, Republican Chair Brendan Carr announced an August 6th ballot to extremity the nationalist ownership headdress rule, which was intended to forestall 1 institution from dominating the media scenery and incentivize serving section communities. Carr argued the emergence of societal media and streaming platforms renders the regularisation obsolete, due to the fact that nationalist programmers tin scope "100 percent of the country" without the request to entree nationalist airwaves. Under this reasoning, headdress …

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