President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against the media on Sunday with an admonition to the Federal Communications Commission to investigate polling used by news outlets and punish a prominent television news host. Trump has long had an adversarial relationship with journalists and news organizations who publish stories he doesn’t like, particularly those about
President Donald Trump suggested referring NBC News anchor Kristen Welker for possible punishment by the Federal Communications Commission after the “Meet the Press” moderator made innocuous remarks about candidates the President has backed in the run-up to the nation’s midterm elections later this year. Trump’s chilling diatribe, released via Truth Social, appeared to be misinformed.
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
President Donald Trump on Friday nominated Danielle Thumann, who currently serves as senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as a commissioner on the agency. If she’s confirmed, it would give Republicans a 3-1 advantage at the FCC (with one remaining seat still unfilled). Trump submitted Thumann for a term of five years
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
Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the FCC, has not directly weighed in on the backlash over the agency’s move to force Disney’s ABC to reapply for spectrum licenses on an accelerated schedule — a move that comes as President Trump has called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired over a joke the late-night host
