Can you say malicious compliance?
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Chairman Carr asks networks to air 'pro-America content' to mark nation's 250th birthday
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I thought about that (I have a copy from Premiere) but it would be too much of a "WTF?" for our listeners.
Besides, we always do one of the year-end shows up to midnight on New Year's Eve, repeat it on New Year's Day afternoon, and then repeat it again on Independence Day. Seems to go over well with the audience.
NBC affiliates could just replay the endings of the two gold medal hockey games from the just-concluded Olympics, maybe with the locker-room video of Kash Patel dancing and chug-a-lugging with the men's team after the game, just to make the whole thing more MAGA-pleasing.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
"But Mr. Chairman, what could be more patriotic than airing footage of a top government official partying with our Olympic team?"
"The Director needed a break from all his hard work
Yeah, I was just providing a few examples. There are so many other things that could be included. I know Carr was just making a suggestion, but with this administration, you never know if Trump could sign an EO making airing such content mandatory - then it would be a question of whether courts would uphold it or strike it down. But suppose it does happen and courts uphold it, but the keep the definition of "pro-America" vague, stations could maliciously comply by airing content that is "pro-America" by definition but ultimately not what Carr was trying to suggest.
EOs only have power over the executive branch. So he can't order private radio or TV companies to do something. That requires an act of congress.
So did the tarrifs Trump imposed. 13 months later the Suprene Court overturned them. In 13 months an EO ordering patriotic programming for 250th anniversary would be a moot point.
Once again, the stations don't need the government to tell them to cover the 250th. This is mainly the government trying to take credit for things stations already do.
About as much as Tony Soprano “suggesting” to give him a piece of a business’s profits, lest it experience a purely hypothetical unfortunate incident.
There were a couple of stations that didn't run it when it was new for that very reason.
RadioInk makes the same observation I've been making:
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Carr believes he is the one who determines how the law is interpreted. I thought it was up to the courts to do that.
Carr Links FCC Public Service Obligations to 'Pro-America Content' - Radio Ink
FCC Chairman Carr ties patriotic programming to broadcasters’ public interest duties under the new Pledge America Campaign ahead of July 4, 2026.
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Carr believes he is the one who determines how the law is interpreted. I thought it was up to the courts to do that.
RadioInk makes the same observation I've been making:
Carr Links FCC Public Service Obligations to 'Pro-America Content' - Radio Ink
FCC Chairman Carr ties patriotic programming to broadcasters’ public interest duties under the new Pledge America Campaign ahead of July 4, 2026.
Apart from college and Public Radio stations, what radio companies out there would even object to complying with this, though?
Big commercial radio is a conservative business run by executives who agree with these views anyway. Not only will they be motivated to do whatever the FCC suggests in order to grease their regulatory wheels, it's not like they won't be happy for the excuse to air this Pro-Trump content, regardless of whether the "suggestion" is actually within the scope of the FCC's authority.
Our Dear Leader claims his 77 million votes makes him Supreme Ruler, so.....RadioInk makes the same observation I've been making:
Carr Links FCC Public Service Obligations to 'Pro-America Content' - Radio Ink
FCC Chairman Carr ties patriotic programming to broadcasters’ public interest duties under the new Pledge America Campaign ahead of July 4, 2026.
Carr believes he is the one who determines how the law is interpreted. I thought it was up to the courts to do that.
The way he presents it, he makes it impossible for them to "object." However, just because NBC does its Macy's 4th of July Fireworks show doesn't mean they're complying with an FCC "request." Broadcasters do these things anyway, and advertisers will support them.
You obviously forget who is a top shareholder of Audacy.
I wonder what that would look like...a 15 minute video claiming that Americans invented radio?
That might be the least awful lie that outfit would come up with.
Here is more on how Chairman Carrs plan for American content.
"Radio's invention" is a good example of "Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan."
To even try to credit one person for the "invention" of radio is futile. There are so many contributors to the point of a radio signal being sent and received that it would fill a good portion of a "History of Radio" collection.