Reporters Committee Urges FCC to Reject Petitions to Deny ABC License Renewals
Twenty-two groups say the FCC’s early renewal order and equal-time probe are unlawful political pressure on Disney and ABC stations.
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Reporters Committee urges FCC to reject petitions to deny ABC license renewals
The Reporters Committee is urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject petitions seeking to deny the renewal of Disney’s broadcast licenses for several of its ABC stations, raising concerns that the agency is retaliating against the company for its news coverage and other programming in violation of the First Amendment. In public comments submitted to the FCC on Wednesday, the Reporters Committee highlighted the agency’s highly unusu…
ABC’s Defenders Flounder in Rebuttals to FCC, Bite at Disney
ABC’s Defenders Flounder in Rebuttals to FCC, Bite at Disney With the Federal Communications Commission just weeks away from possibly stripping The View of their status as a purported “bona fide news program,” and the fight over the license renewal of ABC-owned affiliates just heating up, the left was still trying to muster their defenses. However, the coalitions of liberal former FCC officials and far-left activist groups coming out of the wood…
Comments on FCC License Renewals for ABC Stations Top 150,000
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commissions’ controversial decision to order an early review of broadcast stations licenses owned by Disney’s ABC broadcast network has now attracted more than 150,000 comments, with more than 100,000 being received in the last 30 days. At 1 p.m. ET, July 29, 151,523 comments had been received, with 100,801 received in the 30 days before July 29. That made proceeding number 26-131 by far the most active dock…
Coalition Letter: NCAC Backs Disney Against FCC Censorship
Dear Mr. D’Amaro, We, the undersigned civil rights, civil liberties, free speech, press freedom, consumer advocacy and pro-democracy organizations, write to stand in solidarity with the Walt Disney Company for resisting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s unprecedented abuse of its power to censor and punish Disney-owned broadcast content. The targeted campaign to punish and alter [...] The post Stands with Disney Against FCC Censorshi…
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