Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, stressed in a recent letter to lawmakers that the FCC Media Bureau’s approval of the Nexstar-Tegna merger is “not a final action by the full Commission.”
The April 13 letter, published by the agency on Tuesday, suggested that the full commission could consider reversing the bureau’s March 19 decision to greenlight the major broadcasting deal. By the end of that month, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation expressed their concerns about the agency forgoing a vote on the merger.
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Carr attempted to allay their concerns while making the case that the “Nexstar-Tegna transaction was in line with … others decided previously by the Media Bureau or other components of the FCC on delegated authority.”
In the letter, the Trump-appointed official revealed that the Broadband Communications Association of Pennsylvania filed an emergency application with the full
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