Trump's FCC Commissioner Threatens Comcast's License Over 'News Distortion'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Apr 16th, 2025, 10:38 pm


Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr threatened news outlets owned by Comcast and suggested the company’s “licensed operations” could be in jeopardy because of its immigration coverage.

On Wednesday, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung slammed MSNBC – a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast – and CNN over their coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Last month, the Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador in contravention of a 2019 court order barring his removal to that country. Abrego Garcia’s lawyer has challenged the deportation, which a federal court ruled “illegal.” Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a district court ruling and instructed the administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.

So far, however, the Trump administration has refused, stating that the matter is up to the Salvadoran government.

On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karolin Leavitt was joined in the briefing room by Patty Morin, whose daughter was raped and murdered by an undocumented immigrant in 2023. He was convicted of the killing this week. Of the three major cable news networks, only Fox News carried the briefing.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trumps-fcc-commissioner-threatens-comcasts-license-over-news-distortion/

[sinkingfeeling]

1. The TSF regime will destroy the free press before the end of the year.

Sorry. I'm a "boomer doomer".

[Ocelot II]

2. They're getting more Stalinist every day.

And what's with exploiting the woman whose daughter was murdered by an immigrant? Did Abrego Garcia do it? Did a Venezuelan gang member do it? (The actual murderer was from El Salvador.) If we deport all immigrants and don't let any more in, there will be no more murders, right? Baghdad Barbie's "logic" tells us that because Jeffrey Dahmer was a resident of Milwaukee, we should watch out for Milwaukeans because they're probably cannibals.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. There has been commentary on Fox & CNBC negative to tRump's actions. Terminate all licenses except ONAN & RSB? . . . nt

[Midnight Writer]

4. CNN and MSNBC are not broadcast, but cable, and need no license.

Am I mistaken in this?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Comcast also owns NBC

so they are suggesting pulling licenses from local NBC stations.

So for example here in Philly where Comcast is headquartered, after a ridiculous and insane rearrangement of both TV and radio stations back in the mid-90s with deregulation, our local CBS-affiliate TV station WCAU, became a NBC-affiliate station as "NBC10" (and owned by Comcast). They eventually moved the broadcast studio from City Line Ave (on the Bala Cynwd, Montgomery County side of the street), down to the 2nd Comcast Tower (once the building was completed in 2018 and technical issues were resolved) -

[Midnight Writer]

7. Thanks for explaining.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. No problem as I type from

Comcast-land on Comcast internet.

These are the 2 Comcast towers here (both the tallest buildings in the city) -



And growing up here, until 1984, there was no building taller than "Billy Penn's Hat" (referencing the statue of William Penn that sits on top of City Hall Tower - seen in the above pic at the bottom left).





AND when they were building each of those Comcast buildings, out of superstition, they put a little William Penn statuette at the top -





(sorry to dump that in here )

[thesquanderer]

9. Comcast is in the process of spinning off MSNBC anyway.

That should end the threat of their ownership of MSNBC giving Trump a reason to threaten their over-the-air NBC licenses.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "That should end the threat of their ownership of MSNBC giving Trump a reason to threaten"

No it won't because they currently (and will probably continue to) share personalities across their holdings.

I.e., people like Kornaki and probably Schmuck Toad.

[Firestorm49]

5. " News distortion" Really? Apparently Carr has never watched FOX entertainment. What guts! Hypocrite.