The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reopening a number of complaints against broadcast outlets that were dismissed by the previous administration just days before President Trump took

The FCC on Thursday approved an application to renew the broadcast license of Fox-owned WTXF, ending a two year-long challenge brought by the MAD Project. This article, FCC tosses petition that challenged licensed of Fox-owned WTXF,

The agency also rejected a complaint against 6ABC over 2024 election coverage that allegedly favored Kamala Harris.

Chair Jessica Rosenworcel is dismissing four high profile petitions before the agency before she vacates the position, saying such action is necessary to

Rosenworcel said Trump was a threat to the First Amendment for calling on the FCC to revoke licenses for broadcast television stations because he disagrees with their content and coverage.

The FCC, which grants eight-year ... since its parent company also owns the anti-Democrat cable channel Fox News. Former Fox Broadcasting executive Preston Padden and other activists argued ...

Brendan Carr, the new Republican head of the agency, has brought back cases against CBS, ABC, and NBC related to last fall’s presidential election — though a complaint against Fox will be allowed to lapse.

I have directed the FCC to take a stand on behalf of the First Amendment," she said. "We draw a bright line at a moment when clarity about government interference with the free press is needed more than ever.

In one of her final announcements, Jessica Rosenworcel said that Trump’s attacks on the free press are a new extension of those by past presidents.

Trump's inauguration comes 100 years after Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 ceremony became the first to be broadcast nationally, via radio.

Brendan Carr, newly installed as chairman of the FCC under the new Trump administration, is reviving a trio of complaints aimed at NBC, ABC and CBS content, ones that his predecessor dismissed for being “at odds with the First Amendment.