The chief of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) said Thursday that his agency was investigating a California radio station backed by billionaire George Soros for revealing the location of border enforcement agents.
“This is really concerning,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a morning interview with Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade. “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.”
The station, San Francisco’s KCBS 740 AM, is tied to Soros through its parent company, Audacy. Soros assumed $400 million of Audacy’s debt in 2024 as the company engaged in a financial restructuring, giving him a stake in its more than 200 radio stations.
At around 6:05 p.m. PT, @KCBSRadio, a prominent Bay Area radio station, reported live the vehicle descriptions of three alleged undercover @ICEgovERO @ICEgov vehicles in east San Jose, an area with violent Latino migrant gang activity.
The information put the law enforcement…
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Carr said his agency’s Enforcement Bureau sent KCBS a letter of inquiry after a Jan. 26 broadcast of KCBS Radio Weekend News, in which host Bret Burkhart revealed the color, make and model of unmarked vehicles that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were using for “an operation on the east side of town.”
The Federal Communications Commission is investigating Soros-owned radio station KCBS for exposing the location of ICE agents in San Jose.
FCC Chairman @BrendanCarrFCC talks about it with Brian Kilmeade pic.twitter.com/IsqtBBJ9Ea
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The host credited the Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network, which he called “a community defense projecting system for immigrant communities against deportation threats,” for being the first to report the activity. e added, “Stay with KCBS. We’ll be tracking it for you.”
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Carr noted that radio stations have an obligation under federal law to act in the “public interest.”
“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 said. “I try to look on the bright side of things. And here, I think that’s the fact that we were having an unprecedented number of deportations taking place in this country, and for that, thank goodness for President Trump.”