(AP) — A federal judge has agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
@newsguyusa I'm sure he fully intends to have the FCC pull NPR's broadcasting license.

@Nazani @newsguyusa

That's not how it works. NPR doesn't broadcast anything; their member stations do. So, the administration would have to pull hundreds or thousands of individual broadcast licenses.

Trump might do that, I suppose, but it's not as easy as yanking a single license and would lead to a multitude of lawsuits, all of which he would likely lose.

@bruce ding ding ding! As you say, networks are not FCC licensed. only operators of transmitters are licensed. Trump perpetually threatens to revoke broadcast licenses where none exist. Leads to much eyerollfacepalming by broadcast engineers. Now to reconstitute the CPB. @Nazani @newsguyusa