The Walt Disney Co. and ABC are once again pushing back on the FCC, this time over the agency’s demand that it file early renewal applications for its broadcast licenses, a move that the company calls a threat to the First Amendment. “It is an extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at disfavored editorial […]

Nexstar has fired back at a lawsuit filed by DirecTV and attorneys general of several states aiming to derail the local TV giant’s $6.2 billion merger with rival Tegna. In a request for an expedited appeal filed with the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday evening, the company called a federal judge’s preliminary injunction in April that […]

Vice President JD Vance will make his first appearance on The View next week. His guest spot comes as the show is the subject of an FCC investigation, led by President Donald Trump’s appointed chairman Brendan Carr, over the agency’s equal time rule. ABC has pushed back on the investigation, saying that the crackdown is […]

UPDATED: The FCC is now taking public comment on whether ABC’s The View should qualify as a “bona fide news program,” and therefore be exempt from the agency’s equal time requirements. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the public comment period on Friday, with filings due by June 22 and replies by July 6. Earlier this […]

With calls of American “resilience and unity” ahead of the country’s 250th birthday and chants of “USA, USA” from the the crowd of nearly 20,000 in a packed Madison Square Garden for Monday’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals, President Donald Trump learned how Knicks fans really felt about him. The erstwhile New York resident […]

Disney’s ABC has submitted its license renewal applications for its eight local TV stations to the FCC as ordered by the agency — but said it is doing so “under protest.” The FCC’s Media Bureau last month issued an unprecedented order forcing ABC to reapply for spectrum licenses for its eight owned-and-operated stations on an […]

An independent security assessment conducted by U.S.-based cybersecurity firm OnDefend found that there are no security-related reasons for blocking DJI's products from being imported and sold in the United States.

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After a group of former FCC chairs and commissioners petitioned the agency to repeal its news distortion policy last November, the current chairman Brendan Carr never acted on it. Last month, they asked an appellate court to compel him to do so. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel gave the FCC 30 days to respond to […]