FCC Pressures Broadcasters

🔴 Abuse of Power · Sep 2025

Summary

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened broadcasters with license revocations unless they took action against Jimmy Kimmel, telling a podcast: ‘We can do this the easy way or the hard way.’ Nexstar and Sinclair, both with mergers pending FCC approval, announced they would pull Kimmel within hours. ABC then suspended the show. GOP Sen. Ted Cruz called it ‘dangerous as hell’ and ‘mafioso.’ Trump celebrated the suspension and demanded NBC fire Fallon and Seth Meyers. The ACLU called it ‘unconstitutional jawboning.‘