Jimmy Kimmel and The View Change Guests as FCC Oversight Looms Large for Disney

Jimmy Kimmel and The View Change Guests as FCC Oversight Looms Large for Disney

The Walt Disney Company’s second largest operating income segment, linear broadcast, has been the recipient of a shadow cast over its handling of guests. Both “The View” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” suddenly find themselves under strict FCC scrutiny and wobbly ratings as a result! What changed at ABC this year was not a wholesale retreat from politics so much as a legal recalibration. On January 21, the FCC said late-night and daytime talk shows coul…