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FCC chair used licensing rules to pressure broadcast networks, New York Times reports

Under President Trump, Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr has used long-unused public-interest licensing rules to press major broadcast networks, the New York Times reported, including publicly demanding that ABC suspend Jimmy Kimmel and reinstating complaints against network-owned local stations. The paper describes a December Senate Commerce Committee hearing in
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