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 ...

The Federal Communications Commission demanded that CBS provide the unedited transcript of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that is the subject of a complaint to the FCC and a lawsuit ...

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr claims the public broadcasting stations could be violating federal law. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr claims the public broadcasting stations could be violating ...

NPR and PBS maintain that their sponsorships comply with FCC regulations and believe they can prove it. Democratic FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks criticizes the investigation as a potential ...

The stations require licenses approved by the FCC to operate, and these licenses limit them as non-commercial educational broadcast stations, which are prohibited by federal law from airing ...

The chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching an investigation into NPR and PBS over their alleged “airing of commercials.” “I am concerned that NPR and PBS ...

“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr wrote in a letter to the heads of both outlets, according to NP ...

Over a thousand local stations, the vast majority being non-profits, broadcast NPR and PBS content on public airwaves as a result of licenses granted by the FCC. Those stations aren’t authorized ...

Under FCC guidelines, a station can share a sponsor’s name, a general description of what they do and where they’re located. Unlike a typical commercial spot, these announcements are supposed ...

Katherine Maher, NPR’s chief executive, released a statement on Thursday in response, “NPR programming and underwriting messaging complies with federal regulations, including the FCC ...