{"id":14949,"date":"2026-08-07T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14949"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:01:00","slug":"brendan-carr-officially-unleashes-broadcast-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14949","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Carr officially unleashes broadcast consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Lauren Feiner<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 6, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image showing Brendan Carr\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/STKP211_BRENDAN_CARR_A.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The era of set broadcast ownership limits is officially over, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DOC-424076A1.pdf\">end the national ownership cap rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency&#8217;s two Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to end the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations that reach a combined more than 39 percent of US TV households, while Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented. It formalizes a policy Carr has long criticized, and which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/966283\/fcc-broadcast-ownership-cap-brendan-carr\">announced last month<\/a> that he would seek to end at Thursday&#8217;s open FCC meeting. In place of a set limit, the FCC says, there will now be \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/976287\/fcc-broadcast-ownership-rule-ends\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/976287\/fcc-broadcast-ownership-rule-ends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Feiner &bull; August 6, 2026 The era of set broadcast ownership limits is officially over, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to end the national ownership cap rule. The agency&#8217;s two Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to end the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14949\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}