SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Federal Communications Commission is investigating a San Francisco radio station for its coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities in the Bay Area last month. In an appearance on Fox News, FCC chair Brendan Carr accused SF-based KCBS 740 AM of broadcasting live locations of undercover ICE agents, calling it “really concerning.”
“This is really concerning,” Carr told Fox News, “so what happened was you had ICE agents undercover doing operations in East San Jose, part of the town known for violent gang activity, and you had this radio station broadcasting the live location, identifying the unmarked vehicles that they were in.”
Carr, who was appointed FCC chair last month by President Donald Trump, said the FCC is looking into the station and had sent KCBS a letter of inquiry.
“We have sent a letter of inquiry, a formal investigation into that matter, and they have days left to respond to that inquiry and explain how this could possibly be consistent with their public interest obligations,” Carr told Fox News.
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau will reportedly inquire as to whether KCBS violated the terms of its FCC license, which dictates that it operate in the “public interest.”
KRON4.com reached out to KCBS’s parent company Audacy which declined to comment.
This is not the first time Bay Area officials have run afoul of the Trump administration over ICE raids. In 2018, then-Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned local residents of ICE immigration sweeps.
Thomas Homan, Trump’s current “border czar” condemned Schaaf on “Fox and Friends” at the time, saying that her warning was “no better than a gang lookout yelling ‘police’ when a police cruiser comes into the neighborhood.”
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Federal Communications Commission is investigating a San Francisco radio station for its coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities in the Bay Area last month. In an appearance on Fox News, FCC chair Brendan Carr accused SF-based KCBS 740 AM of broadcasting live locations of undercover ICE agents, calling […]
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