Brendan Carr is now formally the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, giving him the power to set the agency’s agenda and usher through a host of regulations with major implications for the tech and media industries as soon as he has a Republican majority.

One day after being appointed, Brendan Carr has revealed 11 staff appointments to the FCC and the Office of the Chairman.

At a time when very few broadcast stations are owned by minorities, Carr said diversity, equity and inclusion efforts constituted “invidious forms of discrimination”

President Donald J. Trump yesterday signed an order that designates Commissioner Brendan Carr as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

As expected, President Trump signed an order Monday designating Commissioner Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

US President Donald Trump has signed an order that designates Commissioner Brendan Carr as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. In a Statement,

New FCC chair Brendan Carr reversed a last-minute decision by the Biden administration-led regulator to reject bias complaints lodged by Donald Trump against three network TV news broadcasters, the agency said Wednesday.

Brendan Carr announced around a dozen new staff appointments in one of his first acts as Chairman of the FCC. This article, New FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announces staff appointments, was first published at The Desk.