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Carr Says FCC Can Go It Alone on Ownership Caps

Who wins if the ownership cap falls -- and who loses

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Rob Archer
Nov 02, 2025
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr

For nearly thirty years, radio companies have lived under the same limits — no more than eight stations in the biggest markets, and fewer in smaller ones.

Now FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says those limits aren’t written in stone — and that the FCC could raise them without Congress.

“It’s a rule-based cap, not a statutory cap,” C…

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