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ABC lawyers accuse Trump’s FCC of punishing network for political reasons Jeremy Barr in Washington
Network lawyers in a legal motion strongly pushed back against the FCC’s investigation into The View talkshowLawyers representing an ABC station have accused the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of punishing the network for political purposes in a strongly worded attack on the Trump-controlled commission’s investigation into top-rated talkshow, The View.In a legal motion filed on Thursday, KTRK-TV, a Houston-based local television station owned by ABC, pushed back strongly against the FCC
8 May 2026 at 17:34

ABC lawyers accuse Trump’s FCC of punishing network for political reasons

8 May 2026 at 17:34

Network lawyers in a legal motion strongly pushed back against the FCC’s investigation into The View talkshow

Lawyers representing an ABC station have accused the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of punishing the network for political purposes in a strongly worded attack on the Trump-controlled commission’s investigation into top-rated talkshow, The View.

In a legal motion filed on Thursday, KTRK-TV, a Houston-based local television station owned by ABC, pushed back strongly against the FCC investigation, accusing the purportedly independent agency of taking actions that “threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to The View and more broadly”.

TheHill - Just In
ABC accuses FCC of violating its free speech Dominick Mastrangelo
ABC is accusing President Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of violating its First Amendment rights as FCC Chair Brendan Carr ramps up scrutiny of the Disney-owned outlet over the content it broadcasts. In a Friday filing with the FCC, which was first reported by The New York Times, ABC centers its criticism on a regulatory...
8 May 2026 at 17:06

ABC accuses FCC of violating its free speech

TheHill - Just In

By: Dominick Mastrangelo

8 May 2026 at 17:06

ABC is accusing President Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of violating its First Amendment rights as FCC Chair Brendan Carr ramps up scrutiny of the Disney-owned outlet over the content it broadcasts. In a Friday filing with the FCC, which was first reported by The New York Times, ABC centers its criticism on a regulatory...

Variety
ABC Says Trump’s FCC Probe Into ‘The View’ Over Equal-Time Rule Threatens to ‘Chill Critical Protected Speech’ Todd Spangler
Disney’s ABC is firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that “threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech.” The issue involves an FCC investigation into whether talk-show “The View” qualifies for an exemption to the agency’s equal-time political rule but ABC argues that […]
8 May 2026 at 16:15

ABC Says Trump’s FCC Probe Into ‘The View’ Over Equal-Time Rule Threatens to ‘Chill Critical Protected Speech’

Variety

By: Todd Spangler

8 May 2026 at 16:15

Disney’s ABC is firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that “threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech.” The issue involves an FCC investigation into whether talk-show “The View” qualifies for an exemption to the agency’s equal-time political rule but ABC argues that […]

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