Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr echoed the Media Research Center in a warning shared with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck that the federal government is poised to do a massive and unprecedented favor to leftist billionaire George Soros.
On Tuesday’s edition of The Glenn Beck Program, Carr sounded the alarm that the FCC is about to help Soros snatch up hundreds of radio stations owned by Audacy. Carr made clear that Soros’s foreign-backed purchase of Audacy, America’s second-biggest radio company, would normally require a review process that could take over a year, far past the 2024 election. However, Carr disturbingly told Beck that the FCC has “for the very first time ever, has skipped that process.”
George Soros is buying up HUNDREDS of radio stations before the election and @BrendanCarrFCC confirms the FCC is HELPING him: "We have a very clear process... to review the foreign ownership at issue here... the FCC Commission, for the very first time ever, has SKIPPED that… pic.twitter.com/E3gJ7hWMjI
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) September 24, 2024
Earlier this year, Soros Fund Management purchased $400 million of Audacy’s debt or about a 40% stake in the company, taking over 16 50,000-watt radio stations that Audacy features or streams. In April 2024, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell admonished the FCC for failing to comply with its rules.
Bozell first petitioned the FCC not to give preferential treatment to Soros by granting his request to skip a required “public interest” review of his purchase. Following Audacy’s rebuttal to the MRC petition, Bozell wrote, “The Communications Act does not contain a special Soros shortcut,” while bringing up additional concerns about the negative impact on local radio stations.
Carr agreed that such a move would be special treatment, telling Beck that the FCC had determined to make its first exception in history for Soros. “We have a very clear process set up at the FCC; it could take six months, it could take a year to review the foreign ownership at issue here. But for reasons that are not sort-of plain to me, the FCC commission, for the very first time ever, has skipped that process,” he warned.
The FCC has apparently ignored precedent and the devastating case put together by Bozell in April. “The Soros filings fail to demonstrate that in this case any interest in the reasonably efficient emergence from bankruptcy cannot be accommodated while also assessing the foreign ownership interests at the same time,” Bozell stated then, before warning: “There is no question that George Soros and his affiliated businesses are looking to control these radio stations to advance their particular brand of activism.”
In his petition, the MRC president noted that Soros would be taking over “225 local radio stations in 46 markets," which makes it even more important for the FCC to conduct a thorough review.
Soros’s Audacy purchase follows years of heavily investing in media. As previously reported by MRC Business, Soros “gave $131,111,250 to journalism and media organizations around the globe” to push leftist positions on a range of issues between 2016 and 2020 alone.
Soros has also donated $492,000 to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) from 2017 to 2019. The IFCN coordinates with a vast network of fact-checkers, including The Associated Press, FactCheck.org, The Dispatch, The Washington Post and PolitiFact.
Beyond this, Soros has ties to 34 legacy and leftist media personalities, detailed extensively in a Media Research Center report “George Soros: Propaganda Powerhouse.”
Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on Soros’ ties to American and global media.
