Disney’s ABC Sues FCC And Can Lean On Decades Of Deregulation

Groups seek to join Disney’s lawsuit against FCC over ABC licenses

The front of local television station KGO-TV in San Francisco, owned by the Walt Disney Company. (Photo by Matthew Keys for The Desk) Frequency Forward, the Media Action Center and viewers of local ABC-owned television stations are seeking to join the Walt Disney Company and ABC’s lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), arguing that viewers have a First Amendment interest in the case that should be represented in court. The …

Disney’s ABC Sues FCC And Can Lean On Decades Of Deregulation

The FCC threats to revoke ABC’s licenses follow decades of efforts to diminish the federal government’s ability to do exactly what the FCC now seems to want.

ABC sues FCC over challenge to its broadcast licenses, saying actions present ‘existential threat’

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr departs an event in the East Room of the White House, March 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press Further escalating its battle with the Trump administration, ABC on Tuesday took the rare step of suing the Federal Communications Commission on First Amendment grounds, saying the agency’s demand for early review of its broadcast l…

Public Interest Groups Seek To Join ABC In FCC Fight

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A pair of progressive political action groups, along with a collection of viewers of ABC stations, have filed a Motion to Intervene as plaintiffs alongside The Walt Disney Company in its federal lawsuit against the FCC being argued in U.S. District Court. It follows a late June effort by the groups to gain standing at the Commission as it condemned the decision under the leadership of Chairman Brendan Carr to place an early li…

ABC Sues FCC Over First Amendment Rights

ABC has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on First Amendment grounds, in response to the agency’s demand for early review of broadcast licenses. The network, along with its parent company Disney and eight local stations, sought a federal court’s intervention to halt the early renewal process initiated by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who is known to be an ally of President Donald Trump. The FCC’s decision to review…