Brendan Carr plans to let broadcast giants dominate the airwaves

FCC chair Brendan Carr plans to relax broadcast ownership caps, allowing larger media companies to own more stations in the same market. The move reverses decades of consolidation rules designed to limit media concentration and opens the door for further M&A among broadcasters. If you supply or service broadcast networks, the FCC just handed consolidation a green light: fewer, larger buyers mean consolidated vendor lists and higher switching costs per customer. If you sell to regional broadcasters, your acquisition targets are about to become part of bigger fish.