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The Trump Administration rants about ABC News And NBC, Says They Should Lose FCC Licenses

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Donald Trump Rages At ABC And NBC, Says They Should Lose FCC Licenses Over “Unfair Coverage”

Donald Trump is again calling on broadcast networks to lose their licenses over what he has deemed unfair coverage.
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First of all we mentioned previously that the FCC only goes after local TV affiliates licences for certain infractions. The other part here is that theres an ongoing transition with CNBC and MSNBC/MSNow in the process of changing owners from Comcast to Versant Media. NBC and other Comcast owned stations that carry NBC affiliation or Telemundo affiliation stay with Comcast. Disney Specifically is mainly protecting Hulu and Disney+ apps. Even if the FCC ordered stations like KABC-TV, WABC-TV, KNBC-TV, WNBC-TV, KVEA and WNJU off the air because of Trump's rants these stations can be a local feed within Peacock or Hulu. But this one is rife with the First Amendment issues that we seen before.
President Trump threatened major broadcast networks in a string of social media posts late Sunday, suggesting they be fined or taken off the air due to their polling and coverage of his administration.

“Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the World, aren’t paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE FEES,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday night. “They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!! Crooked ‘journalism’ should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!”

In another post, the president called ABC and NBC “two of the worst and most biased networks in history,” which “give me 97% BAD STORIES.”
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And, as we already know, Trump's definition of "fake news" is "anything that doesn't support my views or my actions" or otherwise contradicts his regime administration.

And "biased" only means "biased against ME".

The reference to "97% BAD STORIES" says it all.
 
ABC & NBC should take the government to court which is plain wrong in my opinion. Trump made that threat with NBC in 2017 and nothing happened then.
 
This "threat" is entirely sourced from a social media post which may or may not have been written by him (and of course it's fully ambiguous by design). It's also published in The Hill, which is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which is seeking to buy out Tegna Inc., owns a network of their own (The CW), and seeks to have substantial power over the majority of NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates across the country.

Please please do some critical thinking here.
 
Nathan Obral said:
This "threat" is entirely sourced from a social media post which may or may not have been written by him (and of course it's fully ambiguous by design). It's also published in The Hill, which is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which is seeking to buy out Tegna Inc., owns a network of their own (The CW), and seeks to have substantial power over the majority of NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates across the country.

Please please do some critical thinking here.
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i saw the video where he said it.
 
Inside Radio has a different view on the president's comments. They quote a financial analyst who interprets the comment as offering the radio spectrum for sale rather than license:

www.insideradio.com

Trump Licensing Proposal Puts Broadcast Value In Spotlight.

President Donald Trump’s renewed call for broadcasters to pay licensing fees has sparked fresh debate on Wall Street, with some analysts highlighting the potential upside in how the nation values
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Nathan Obral said:
Whether or not he said it doesn't matter (I believe he did for the record). The bigger issue is that an allegedly unbiased website in The Hill did not disclose the obvious conflict of interest with their parent company seeking to buy a major amount of NBC affiliates and the largest ABC affiliate not owned by the network.
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Thanks for that info about The Hill, I had no idea who they're owned by.
 
Megatron said:
ABC & NBC should take the government to court which is plain wrong in my opinion. Trump made that threat with NBC in 2017 and nothing happened then.
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I don’t think a court will issue a preliminary injunction or take any action based on a social media post (threat?) or an oral statement (threat). The day an Executive Order or FCC initiates action will be the day to take his threats to court. And the legal filings are probably already on repeated, just waiting (in case) they need to filed.
 
TheBigA said:
As I've said before: There is no fairness doctrine in this country. Every time it's come up, conservatives oppose it. News organizations can say whatever they want, and the first amendment protects them from the government.
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I oppose it, and im so far from conservative. I dont like the fact other places say whatever they want, get sued and lose.. but some of those organizations dont hold fcc licenses anyways. I also dont want the FCC involved in programming in any fashion.

I dont know what the magical answer is, but you give the government an inch, theyll take a mile
 
TheBigA said:
Inside Radio has a different view on the president's comments. They quote a financial analyst who interprets the comment as offering the radio spectrum for sale rather than license:

www.insideradio.com

Trump Licensing Proposal Puts Broadcast Value In Spotlight.

President Donald Trump’s renewed call for broadcasters to pay licensing fees has sparked fresh debate on Wall Street, with some analysts highlighting the potential upside in how the nation values
www.insideradio.com www.insideradio.com
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That piece was a masterclass in sanewashing.
 
If I were the networks, I would be looking at an exit ramp where they leave OTA behind for streaming. Leave it to the remaining stations to figure out a future, if they can.

Paramount+ now turns a profit. CBS News (including the owned-stations unit of CBS) is now said to be losing $50M a year. It does not take an accountant at Paramount Skydance to see what the future already is.
 
K.M. Richards said:
And Trump would then demand the FCC cancel their "internet licenses". :rolleyes:
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And water is wet. But the FCC is not set up to regulate non-linear content, and it puts the agency at a disadvantage.

Either they get Congress and the Senate to rewrite the rules entirely (which is very possible), or Carr and Trusty throw up their hands and say it's pointless to oversee linear content that's easily available online. Then the FCC can treat the spectrum as a mere commodity and the remaining broadcasters function effectively as datacasters (which is why I am not discounting Inside Radio's interpretation).
 


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