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The president's media czar, Brendan Carr, is already letting conservative broadcasters get bigger. Now he’s eyeing ways to help them ditch shows like Jimmy Kimmel.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr speaks in March at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas. | Gabriela Passos/AP
Conservative television broadcasters are getting bigger under Donald Trump — and thanks to his top communications regulator, they may get enhanced power to mute the president’s critics.
The Federal Communications Commission’s approval of a $6.2 billion merger between the TV station owners Nexstar and Tegna is one step toward agency Chair Brendan Carr’s goal of boosting local broadcasters’ market heft, a shift that can help them counter the programming decisions of networks such as NBC and ABC.
