In a letter dated March 7 that was sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, Carr demanded answers about the channel lineup on YouTube TV. The inquiry was prompted following a complaint by Great American Media, which alleges the service refuses to carry its cable networks.

Carr asks Pichai and Mohan to brief the FCC on YouTube TV’s carriage negotiations process, “including the potential role of viewpoint-based discrimination.” The channel mentioned by Carr, Great American Family, is distributed across cable providers and digital services like Fubo, Sling, DirecTV Stream, and Hulu.

The chair of the Federal Communications Commission has sent a letter to Google calling for a briefing by the company regarding concerns that YouTube TV “discriminates against faith-based programming.”Brendan Carr explained in a post on X that he had received complaints from broadcasters about the issue,

Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission sent a letter last week to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan asking if YouTube TV has any policies that discriminate against faith-based programming—an ask prompted by a complaint from Great American Media,

The FCC commissioner, Brendan Carr, says he wants to ‘dismantle’ the ‘censorship cartel.’ The Federal Communications Commission is looking into whether YouTube TV is actively discriminating against faith-based media as its chairman wages a war against what he calls the “censorship cartel.