By Scott Nover, washingtonpost.com, 6-22-26
ABC viewers across the country are getting a message from the network: If you like your local stations, or “The View,” help us get the government off our back.
ABC on June 22 launched an on-air campaign asking viewers to send comments to the Federal Communications Commission’s website pushing back on the agency and its chairman, Brendan Carr.
Since February, the FCC has been investigating whether ABC’s “The View” violated the commission’s equal-time rule, which guarantees equal airtime to all candidates running for the same public office. ABC has maintained that “The View” qualifies as what the commission calls a “bona fide” news program and is exempt from the rule, accusing the FCC of violating the First Amendment in a legal filing. » Read More