By Todd Spangler, Variety.com, 9-21-26 In an unprecedented move, four of the five TV networks that provide White House pool coverage of President Donald Trump – ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and Fox News – have joined in solidarity with CNN, which is the fifth TV pooler, announcing they are suspending coverage of [...]
By Hannah Knowles, Miriam Waldvogel, Scott Nover, and Victoria Craw, washingtonpost.com, 9-21-26 Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement agreement with California and 11 other states that sued two months ago to block the company’s $110-billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, paving the way for a blockbuster unification of two Hollywood giants. California Attorney General Rob [...]
By Brian Steinberg, Variety.com, 9-21-26 MS NOW, CNN, and Politico are suing President Donald Trump and other administration officials over a decision by Trump to ban the three news organizations from newsgathering at the White House, the latest fracture in the relationship between the president and the national media. “This morning, we notified the [...]
By Scott Nover, washingtonpost.com, 9-18-26 President Donald Trump said he is banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House for reporting what he called “fake news,” breaking with long-running protocol for relations between the executive office and the press. Court precedent in press-access cases has largely held that while the government does [...]
By Ted Johnson, Deadline.com, 8-18-26 ABC filed an unprecedented First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC on Aug. 18, claiming that its investigations and regulatory actions are part of a Trump administration “retaliatory campaign” to curb the network’s free speech. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., also seeks to halt a [...]
By Nick Langan, RadioWorld.com, 8-7-26 President Donald Trump has nominated Republican Danielle Thumann Severs, who is a senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve on one of the two open seats on the commission. The nomination was sent to the U.S. Senate on Aug. 7, where it will go through a formal [...]
By George Winslow, TVTechnology.com, 8-6-26 In a landmark vote that is likely to encourage a wave of deals in the broadcast station business, the Federal Communications Commission has voted to change TV station ownership rules in a way that would allow the agency to approve mergers that exceed the caps on a case-by-case basis if [...]
By Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter.com, 7-30-26ABC is officially calling on the Federal Communications Commission to drop its “extraordinary and unprecedented” proceeding to call in the Disney-owned network’s stations for an early broadcast license renewal.The network responded to the Brendan Carr-led agency in a new filing July 30.“There is no question why the Commission is singling out [...]
By Salvador Rizzo, washingtonpost.com, 7-23-26 The Justice Department agreed to withdraw subpoenas it issued to New York Times reporters after a federal judge sharply questioned the government’s demand that they testify before a grand jury about their reporting on security concerns with President Donald Trump’s new Air Force One jet. U.S. District Judge Arun [...]
By Eric Tucker and Jocelyn Noveck, APnews.com, 7-20-26 President Donald Trump’s administration sought phone records of several New York Times journalists and even those of some of their relatives, according to a motion unsealed July 20 – an unusually aggressive attempt to unmask the confidential sources of reporters who wrote about Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air [...]