The President of Trump FCC is aimed at NPR, PBS for the investigation ahead of the threats of Congress

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) launched an investigation into PBS media and national public radio (NPR) on member stations that could issue “prohibited commercial ads”, according to a letter obtained by the New York Times.

“I am worried that NPR and PBS emissions can violate federal law by sending advertising ads,” said FCC President Brendan Carr, according to The Times. “In particular, the NPR and PBS members may be transmitted by subscription ads that cross the line in prohibited commercial ads.”

FCC allows companies to support Non -commercial television and radio stations -As NPR, PBS or University Radio stations-through air ads known as subscription sponsorship. Sponsorship, although similar to advertising, face different FCC rules than typical TVs or radio ads.

Carr sent the letters on Wednesday to NPR’s director general, Katherine Maher and PBS’s director, Paula Kerger, according to The Times. He has been a member of the FCC since 2017 and was appointed by the President Donald Trump To act as chairman of the commission under his second administration.

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Carba continued in its letter to alert the Congress of Research, saying that the legislators already weigh if NPR and PBS should receive funds from the taxpayers.

“In particular, Congress is actively studying if you stop the taxpayers to subsidize the NPR and PBS program,” he wrote, according to The Times.

“To the extent that these taxpayer dollars are used to support an effort for profits or an entity that publishes commercial ads, which would undermine any more case to continue financing NPR and PBS with taxpayers dollars,” he continued.

Fox News Digital contacted the FCC on the letter and the Times report, but did not immediately receive any response.

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NPR head, Maher, said in response to the letter that NPR sponsorship practices “complies with federal regulations”.

“NPR programming and subscription messaging complies with federal regulations, including FCC guidelines on subscription messages for non -commercial educational broadcasters, and the members’ stations are also expected to comply with,” Maher said in a statement in a statement. provided to Fox News Digital this Thursday.

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“We are confident that any review of our programming and subscription practices will confirm NPR’s adherence to these rules,” Maher said. “We have worked for decades with the FCC in support of non -commercial educational broadcasters that provide essential information, educational programming and emergency alerts in local communities in the United States.”

PBS added a comment to Digital Fox that also complies with “FCC subscription regulations”.

“PBS is proud of the non -commercial educational program that we provide to all North -Americans through our members. “, said a PBS spokesman.

NPR and PBS are public broadcasting organizations and both are preparing to lose public funding under the Trump administration.

“There is no more funding for NPR, a total scam!” Trump wrote in a publication on social truth in April 2024, previewing his destination under his second administration. “They are a liberal misinformation machine. Not a dollar!”

Republican members of the Congress have also introduced bills that would shift public broadcasting organizations, such as Louisiana senator John Kennedy, and Pennsylvania’s representative Scot Perry, introducing the non -propaganda law in December 2024.

“The North -American taxpayer is running the Bill for a Media Corporation that aims to be impartial while pressing Chinese propaganda,” said Perry in introducing legislation. The corporation for public broadcasting “cannot afford to use your tax dollars won to promote a political and biased agenda that goes against what is best for Americans.”

Recognition of the Carn name became large in front of the November 5, 2024, election, when he Lambast made the NBC’s decision to welcome former Vice President Kamala Harris to “Saturnay Night Live” in the final episode before the election day, but did not offer Trump equal time or other candidates for the presidential cycle.

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The FCC Equality Rule was established in 1934 and requires that radio and television broadcast stations provide the same amount of time for competitory political candidates. There are exceptions in the rule, such as news programs, documentaries and political debates.

“The NBC has structured it so that it is clearly designed to evade the rules of the FCC. We talk 50 hours before the time begins.” And after leaving before and say that they would not precisely because they did not believe they could To do it consistent with the electoral laws and the rule of time equal to the FCC “.

NBC finally filed an equal time warning in the midst of indignation by Harris’s appearance.

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Trump named Car to lead The FCC shortly after the election victory of November 2024, with Carr taking the commission’s helm in January. Carr was nominated for the Trump commission for the first time during his first administration and served as a Senior Republican member of the FCC until his appointment as President.

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“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for freedom of expression and has fought against the regulatory law that has suffocated the freedoms of the North -Americans and has maintained our economy,” Trump said in a statement on the appointment. “The regulatory assault that has been paralyzing the creators and innovative of the work of America will end and will ensure that the FCC offers in rural America.”