Beasley Media Group’s Caroline Beasley is the latest radio CEO to take its case for radio ownership reform to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Beasley and the company’s General Counsel, Chris Ornelas, also met with Acting Media Bureau Chief Alex Sanjenis.
The meeting, disclosed in an ex parte filing, centered on the pending 2022 Quadrennial Review.
Beasley’s argument mirrors the one Connoisseur Media CEO Jeffrey Warshaw delivered to Carr days earlier: the caps, unchanged since 1996, were written before satellite radio, streaming music services, podcasts, social media, digital advertising platforms, smart devices, and automotive phone integration existed, and continuing to apply them to broadcast radio while leaving competitors unconstrained now harms rather than promotes competition, diversity, and localism.
Beasley contends that broadcasters lacking critical economies of scale cannot compete effectively for listeners and advertisers against larger audio and digital players, and that the current rules deprive local stations of the capital investment necessary to sustain free, locally produced programming.
The broadcaster has previously documented the shift of advertising dollars from radio to digital platforms in filings before the commission, including comments submitted in the Quadrennial Review docket in December 2025.
Beasley called on Carr and the FCC to complete the 2022 Quadrennial Review as quickly as possible and repeal its local radio ownership rules entirely.
