The FCC chair orders an investigation into NPR and PBS sponsorships

The president of the Federal Communications Commission has come in the politicized debate on NPR and PBS, ordering an investigation which, according to him, could be relevant in the decision of the legislators as to the end of financing of public press organizations.

Brendan Carr, the president, declared in a letter to NPR and PBS on Wednesday that the investigation would focus on the question of whether the member stations of the press organizations violated the rules of the government by recognizing the financial sponsors on the air .

Carr said that NPR and PBS stations operate as non -commercial broadcasting organizations, but that they can disseminate “announcements that cross the line in prohibited commercial advertisements”.

“Insofar as these dollars of taxpayers are used to support a for -profit company or an entity that broadcasts commercial advertisements,” wrote Mr. Carr, “so it would also undermine any case to continue to finance NPR and PBS with Dollars taxpayers.

The letter is the last action of President Trump’s allies to target the NPR and PBS stations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an organization funded by the taxpayers who support them. The leaders of the NPR and PBS stations are preparing for a potential battle on the financing of the government, playing the worst financial scenarios.

Carr, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, said that he had not seen a reason for the legislators to continue to finance the organizations. He said he was planning to inform the members of the congress of his investigation.