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CAR to Carr: Approve Nexstar-TEGNA Merger without Delay
'What’s important to diversity in local news is not how many owners there are, but how those owners run their stations,' said Center for American Rights President Daniel Suhr
Ted Hearn
Ted Hearn is Managing Editor for Broadband Breakfast. He is also Editor and Publisher of Policyband, a website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the broadband communications market.
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Trump Team 'Fixing the Broadband Mess' Left Behind by Biden, Commerce Secretary Lutnick Says
Commerce chief says he shut down 'rip-off projects run by powerful lobbyists who are very good at getting grants and very bad at delivering results'
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TV Station Affiliates Turn Up the Heat on FCC over Big Four Bargaining Practices
FCC asked to intervene by station owners to save their industry from 'break glass' pressures noted by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Big four networks warn agency not to disrupt the status quo
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Starlink Adds 1 Million Subs in Just 47 Days, Rockets Past 9 Million Globally
To what extent is Starlink's rapid growth making Capitol Hill lawmakers think about whether the $8.5 billion Universal Service Fund and the $42.45 billion BEAD program are becoming obsolete?
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NATO Members Say Putin’s Military Developing Weapons to Disable Starlink LEOs, AP Reports
Russia's weapon system would flood Starlink orbits with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets, damaging, if not destroying, the LEOs and impairing Elon Musk’s ability to help Ukraine fight.
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Is the FCC an Independent Agency? Al Gore Certainly Didn't Think So
It was Gore who told FCC Chairman Reed Hundt that his failing cable TV regulations needed a makeover.
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Anna ‘Aesop’ Gomez Keeps Telling Her Favorite First Amendment Fable – Fox29
FCC Democrats led by Chair Jessica Rosenworcel pointed a license revocation bazooka at the head of a Fox TV station in Philly during the 2024 campaign. But Gomez likes to forget about that one.
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FCC Chairman Carr Was Ready for Senate Democrats' Partisan Gong Show Led by Markey
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) joined the pile on by releasing a communications pricing report filled with partisan half-truths and bogus statistical inferences blaming Carr for fueling inflation
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Sen. Warren Targets Nexstar-TEGNA as 'Presumptively Illegal' in Violating FCC's 39% Cap
In their letter to the FCC and Justice Department, Several Capitol Hill Democrats Addressed None of the Issues Driving the Merger, Such as the Need to Gain Scale to Battle Big Tech and Big Media
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Exclusive Interview with Nexstar Chairman and CEO Perry Sook
Sook says local TV stations need regulatory freedom enjoyed by Big Tech and legacy media giants: ‘It’s going to be necessary to have consolidation to survive.'
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Center for American Rights Funds Media Campaign Favoring Repeal of FCC’s 39% Cap
CAR says the 39% Cap is stifling free markets and failing to check the power of Big Tech and Big Hollywood
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Policyband's Top 10 Predictions for 2026
No 1: Elon Musk Sues to Block Billions in BEAD Funds Going to Fiber, FWA Overbuilders
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Fight on the Right – Laura Loomer Slams Chris Ruddy over His Opposition to Nexstar-TEGNA Merger
‘Ruddy continues to show the world, and especially the conservative movement, how much of a selfish leftist he truly is,” Loomer charged.
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FCC Should Consider Reallocating NPR, PBS Spectrum If Stations Start to Fail, Media Watchdog Says
Center for American Rights seeks Notice of Inquiry to see if PBS and NPR can prove having a viable long-term business model
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Will FCC Pull the Plug on Amazon Leo for Failing to Meet Launch Goals?
Analyst Roger Entner says Amazon Leo can’t possibly meet FCC's July 2026 milestone but won't face guillotine under FCC Chairman Brendan Carr
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Fiber Feud Splits Top Nebraska Republicans
Republican Gov. Jim Pillen accused of caving to NTIA instead of demanding more money for fiber. "Nebraska gave up,” said Pillen GOP rival Charles Herbster.
