Brendan Carr, the Trump-aligned Republican chairman of the FCC, accused James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for the U.S. Senate, of running a “hoax” to garner attention and campaign donations by sitting for an interview with Jimmy Kimmel — which ABC put on YouTube instead airing it on broadcast TV to avoid a potential clash
Disney’s ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, raising the pitch of the company’s efforts to countermand unusual pressure from the federal government to force the company’s stations to submit licenses for early renewal proceedings. In its filing with U.S. District Court, ABC’s lawyers said the company was being
The Federal Communications Commission said it will vote Aug. 6 to repeal the long-standing limit on television station ownership, replacing a limit that prevents owners from controlling stations in more than 39% of markets with a case-by-case review of transactions that could come before regulators. “Today, national programmers can distribute their programming to 100 percent
