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Thursday, August 28, 2025

The nation's chief broadcast regulator is, once more, at the center of President Trump's culture war after the president launched a social media barrage Sunday night against ABC and NBC. ... To be clear, the national networks do not own broadcast licenses to use the public airwaves, which are granted and reviewed by the FCC. Local stations do hold those licenses, however.

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... While the Federal Communications Commission has historically operated with a degree of independence from U.S. presidents, its new chairman, Brendan Carr, has muscularly followed Trump's lead.

Carr has launched formal reviews of nearly all the major broadcast networks " ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and PBS. He has also initiated investigations into the diversity, equity and inclusion actions of the corporate parents of ABC and NBC -- the Walt Disney Co. and Comcast, respectively.

One network has so far escaped his scrutiny: Fox, which is owned by Trump political ally Rupert Murdoch.

Carr has also publicly supported lawsuits Trump filed as a private citizen against ABC and CBS, which yielded twin $16 million settlements from the networks' parent companies. (Trump is suing Murdoch's Wall Street Journal for reporting that he sent a sexually suggestive birthday greeting to the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein.)

In a trio of social media posts late Sunday, the president attacked the media and accused ABC and NBC of being "two of the worst and most biased networks in history." He said, without citing any evidence, that 97% of the stories they had aired about him were "BAD STORIES" and suggested they were an arm of the Democratic Party. ...




#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-27 12:36 AM | Reply

@#1 ... the president attacked the media and accused ABC and NBC of being "two of the worst and most biased networks in history. ...

So, Pres Trump does not appear to like the truth being reported, so he wants to shut down the stations?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-27 12:37 AM | Reply

PEDO DONNIE sucks Putin's ----

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-27 07:08 PM | Reply

Any trumpers around here want to explain how this isn't fascism?

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-28 04:59 PM | Reply

This development dovetails perfectly with Leon Skum's declaration of being a 'Free Speech Maximalist'.

Is it just me, or do others wonder how it is that the guy currently called the President of the United States has so much time to watch cable news and late-night comedians? Perhaps his aides should give him more Big Boy comics (open to the puzzle pages) to keep him busy / amused / distracted / away from the levers of power...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-28 04:59 PM | Reply

Maybe he has ED and that's all there is left for him to do when he retires for the day.

#6 | Posted by path at 2025-08-28 05:09 PM | Reply

Dumbf**k doesn't have a clue about what government does and does't do.

Some Activities That Are Not Regulated by the FCC. We license individual stations only. We do not license TV or radio networks (such as CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, etc.), except as owners of particular stations. (emphasis original)
www.google.com

#7 | Posted by et_al at 2025-08-28 06:17 PM | Reply

@#7 ... We license individual stations only. We do not license TV or radio networks (such as CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, etc.) ...

Bingo!

The FCC would have to revoke the license of each and every ABC and NBC affiliate and network-owned station.

How many lawsuits would the FCC then have to be fighting in Court?


And then there would be streaming of the content.

Does the FCC have control over streaming?


Let's look at NBC ...

List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
en.wikipedia.org(by_U.S._state)

... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American broadcast television network owned by the NBCUniversal Filmed and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, which originated as a radio network in November 1926 and expanded into television in April 1939.

The network currently has 12 owned-and-operated stations, and current affiliation agreements with 223 other television stations.[1][2][3][4] ...



#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-28 06:48 PM | Reply

Hurry up and die you disgusting pedophile.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-28 07:39 PM | Reply

#9: static01.nyt.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-28 07:41 PM | Reply

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