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President's Televised Address

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The president says NBC and ABC licenses should be revoked for not carrying his speech.

www.yahoo.com

Trump Threatens ABC, NBC Broadcast Licenses Over Not Airing His Speech Live

The president claimed without evidence that the networks and others in the media were “engaged in a plot” and want to “continue this fraud.”
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The president can't revoke licenses. If the FCC does, it demonstrates the politicization of the agency it's head denies.

The fact is there's no requirement to carry presidential speeches. In the past, networks have skipped speeches by Obama & Biden.

He claims the networks were part of the fraud. But there was no fraud. The same system in 2020 was also there in 2024 when he won.

ABC & NBC didn't ignore the speech. They covered it during their regular news coverage, just like everyone else.
 
TheBigA said:
The president can't revoke licenses. If the FCC does, it demonstrates the politicization of the agency it's head denies.

The fact is there's no requirement to carry presidential speeches. In the past, networks have skipped speeches by Obama & Biden.
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But again, do they care and does that matter to them? Not one bit.... and theyve proven this before.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
But again, do they care and does that matter to them? Not one bit.... and theyve proven this before.
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No they don't care. The question is: Do the people care? In 1776 the king of England didn't care. At some point, the colonists said enough.

This president doesn't have the "mandate" he thinks he has. He can't get his bill passed in congress. That's why he made the speech.

I fully expect Carr to address this and repeat the president's demand. There is no FCC requirement to carry presidential speeches, no matter how he wants to twist the "public interest." The FCC did away with news requirements 50 years ago.
 
TheBigA said:
No they don't care. The question is: Do the people care? In 1776 the king of England didn't care. At some point, the colonists said enough.

This president doesn't have the "mandate" he thinks he has. He can't get his bill passed in congress. That's why he made the speech.

I fully expect Carr to address this and repeat the president's demand. There is no FCC requirement to carry presidential speeches, no matter how he wants to twist the "public interest." The FCC did away with news requirements 50 years ago.
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The problem is, while his support wanes abit, those wo support him get even louder. you shouldve seen how many "the networks arent covering this because theyre complicit" posts i saw on Facebook, including people in broadcast.. like a producer/side kick at WISN 1130.

His supporters are getting louder .. and their attitude is.. theyre trying to silence us, and we wanna own dem libs....... so thats how and why this will continue
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
His supporters are getting louder .. and their attitude is.. theyre trying to silence us, and we wanna own dem libs....... so thats how and why this will continue
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Absolutely. Instead of bringing the country together, this government is seeking to tear it apart.

The key thing in what you said is the real power isn't in the networks. What the TV networks do doesn't matter to the people. They have their own networks. So even if the FCC forces its opinions on traditional networks, there is still social media.
 
TheBigA said:
Absolutely. Instead of bringing the country together, this government is seeking to tear it apart.

The key thing in what you said is the real power isn't in the networks. What the TV networks do doesn't matter to the people. They have their own networks. So even if the FCC forces its opinions on traditional networks, there is still social media.
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And because this doesnt negatively affects them.. and goes along with their agenda, they dont bother fact checking it ...... and dont care who it hurts
 
TheBigA said:
The president says NBC and ABC licenses should be revoked for not carrying his speech.
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That was predictable. I expected it the minute I saw regular programming on KABC-TV at 6:00pm.

However, I would like him to show me where he can demand the carriage. There is no legal requirement, and the networks historically have carried Presidential addresses both as a courtesy and as news coverage. Not only did ABC decide to offer that courtesy, they treated the whole thing as a news "special report" with clips and commentary.

One must always keep in mind that this POTUS is driven by his own ego and delusions.
 
Driven by his delusions and steered by the behind-the-scenes voices using his mercurial temperament and utter & complete lack of principles or a core philosophy (not to mention staggering ignorance) to achieve their end goals. He is a symptom; the actual disease runs far deeper.
 
K.M. Richards said:
That was predictable. I expected it the minute I saw regular programming on KABC-TV at 6:00pm.
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The real story is that local stations COULD have simply run the speech from the white house twitter feed. They didn't have to carry the network. Apparently some Nexstar stations carried NewsNation coverage of the speech instead of the network. Nothing wrong with that. That's how media works in a free country. The key point is the MEDIA makes the decision, not the government.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Revival of a cheesy 80s game show > verbal vomit
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It is quite exciting when the people win big prizes that really make them happy, but in the bonus round the Whammy can take it all.

Some people end up winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes.

What I saw was the first part of the show, followed by a countdown and commentary on the speech, which included part of the speech, and then the bonus round.

I haven't checked to see what NBC did but at the start of the show, a nature documentary narrated by the liberal Tom Hanks (that alone should get Trump upset) there was a crawl telling people go to the website or app. The show ended on time, so I assume there was no interruption for commentary.
 
TheBigA said:
The president says NBC and ABC licenses should be revoked for not carrying his speech.

www.yahoo.com

Trump Threatens ABC, NBC Broadcast Licenses Over Not Airing His Speech Live

The president claimed without evidence that the networks and others in the media were “engaged in a plot” and want to “continue this fraud.”
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

The president can't revoke licenses. If the FCC does, it demonstrates the politicization of the agency it's head denies.

The fact is there's no requirement to carry presidential speeches. In the past, networks have skipped speeches by Obama & Biden.

He claims the networks were part of the fraud. But there was no fraud. The same system in 2020 was also there in 2024 when he won.

ABC & NBC didn't ignore the speech. They covered it during their regular news coverage, just like everyone else.
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True and everytime we hear about Trump going after NBC News licenses or ABC News licenses we always have to note that its local TV affiliates owned by Comcast and Disney. Also so far Comcast is talking about spinning off NBC but that needs approval from SEC, State attorney Generals, DOJ, IRS and FCC for that to take place. Yes its all about Trump wanting the US to have North Korean type propaganda on TV as mentioned here.
 
vchimpanzee said:
It is quite exciting when the people win big prizes that really make them happy, but in the bonus round the Whammy can take it all.
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I took his remark as meaning "The Apprentice", which I now realize was an incorrect take on my part since that wasn't the 80s.

"Press Your Luck", having been partially pre-empted in the Eastern and Central time zones, really didn't require additional commentary (which was kinda off-topic).
 
There's something....different. Is it just that this topic is so insanely inane that even the sycophantic outlets are distancing themselves ever so slightly? It's hard to imagine there's abruptly been a shift to recognize what he and this regime are. Yet when even the rump-coddling CBS dumps out (albeit with only a few minutes to go, but still) and spends the remainder of the hour primarily pointing out the gigantic holes in his so called revelations, it's remarkable. Maybe just a moment in time and all will revert to the norm, but this was a departure from that norm.
 
IM42A said:
I know I've mentioned this before, but someone really needs to take him aside, and explain to him that networks are not licensed.
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www.aljazeera.com

Philippines largest TV network ABS-CBN ordered shut

Allies of President Duterte refused to renew station's 25-year licence following his tirades against the company.
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True but for some reason whoever is advising Carr and Trump do think that way. Some of this can be traced back to this incident in 2020 when the Duterte Administration in the Philippines yanked the radio and TV network license of ABS-CBN inc and yes it was a purely political as argued when protesters fought for free speech in that one.

Or we can go back to when the Putin Administration in Russia did the same stuff with radio and TV networks during the time Trump was in office the first time around.
 
K.M. Richards said:
That was predictable. I expected it the minute I saw regular programming on KABC-TV at 6:00pm.
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My wife and I were driving over to Stanford around 6pm for a jazz performance (Stanford Jazz Festival, if anyone cares). We had KQED/NPR on the radio, and at about 6:10, if struck me that even they weren't running the speech. My guess is it was available to stations on their Breaking News channel if any wanted to carry it, but KQED, which often carries breaking news, such as substantive presidential policy speeches, the State-Of-The_Union, congressional confirmation hearings or substantially important Supreme Court cases live, just decided that this was just going to be more kvetching from the Whiner-in-Chief. (FWIW, neither was KCBS.)
 
The networks want to sell their O&Os. They can't operate stations under threat like that. That's why the FCC is loosening the ownership caps on TV.
 
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