FCC chair Brendan Carr to face Senate grilling for first time since Jimmy Kimmel saga

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr will appear before the Senate Commerce committee on Wednesday to discuss his push for broadcasters to take ABC s Jimmy Kimmel off the air Carr will appear alongside the FCC s two other commissioners Olivia Trusty and Anna M Gomez In September Carr issued a veiled threat against ABC and Disney suggesting he would take action over controversial comments made by the late-night host about the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Committee chair Sen Ted Cruz R-Texas who scheduled the hearing last month criticized Carr s comments at the time suggesting he sounded like an organized crime boss FCC CHAIR LEVELS THREAT AGAINST ABC DISNEY AFTER KIMMEL SUGGESTED CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN WAS MAGA Look we can do this the easy way or the hard way Carr revealed at the time These companies can find techniques to change conduct to take action frankly on Kimmel or you know there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead I think it is unbelievably dangerous for leadership to put itself in the position of saying we re going to decide what speech we like and what we don t and we re going to threaten to take you off air if we don t like what you re saying Cruz declared on his podcast Kimmel's suspension over his remarks suggesting Kirk's alleged killer was a MAGA supporter was brief he returned to the air the following week and is now signed with Disney through Carr has developed a reputation as working in line with the Trump administration on its aggressive stance toward media companies launching investigations into ABC News CBS News and NBC News as well as NPR and PBS This is a progressing story more to come The Associated Press contributed to this analysis CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP