Current Events > After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/after-getting-jimmy-kimmel-suspended-fcc-chair-threatens-abcs-the-view/

After pressuring ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is setting his regulatory sights on ABC's The View and NBC late-night hosts Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.
Carr appeared yesterday on the radio show hosted by Scott Jennings, who describes himself as "the last man standing athwart the liberal mob." Jennings asked Carr whether The View and other ABC programs violate FCC rules, and made a reference to President Trump calling on NBC to cancel Fallon and Meyers.
"A lot of people think there are other shows on ABC that maybe run afoul of this more often than Jimmy Kimmel," Jennings said. "I'm thinking specifically of The View, and President Trump himself has mentioned Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers at NBC. Do you have comments on those shows, and are they doing what Kimmel did Monday night, and is it even worse on those programs in your opinion?"
In response, Carr discussed the FCC's Equal Opportunities Rule, also known as the Equal Time Rule, and said the FCC could determine that those shows don't qualify for an exemption to the rule.
"When you look at these other TV shows, what's interesting is the FCC does have a rule called the Equal Opportunity Rule, which means, for instance, if you're in the run-up to an election and you have one partisan elected official on, you have to give equal time, equal opportunity, to the opposing partisan politician," Carr said.
At another point in the interview, Carr said broadcasters that object to FCC enforcement "can turn your license in to the FCC, we'll find something else to do with it."

It's a large article, I'm not going to copy and paste the entire thing. But wow who could have seen they would keep going.

See Igor, this is why you don't capitulate to fascists. Now they want more and everyone else is cancelling subscriptions.

Big companies are that scared of Trump. That's really pathetic.

Lol, it was never about kirk, it was always about trumps wittle feelings getting hurt

Oh, he is DEEPLY going to regret fucking with middle-aged black women...

Tmaster148 posted...

Carr appeared yesterday on the radio show hosted by Scott Jennings, who describes himself as "the last man standing athwart the liberal mob."

That's weird, there's a whole bunch of idiots doing the same thing.

You're on payroll of quite a few, and and even more of them are on your payroll playing Nazi.

we're all getting canceled. not good :(.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Oh, he is DEEPLY going to regret fucking with middle-aged black women...

Will he? He hates them, and all other black people, and other minorities. Sure would be nice if something could stop him, but everyone will probably just surrender again.

Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile.