Trump, FCC Chair Brendan Carr & Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
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Brendan Carr’s Half-Empty Threat
In a recent interview, Sikes told me that current FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s threats against the late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and TV networks are antithetical to the agency’s founding mission. Carr, he said, seems to be opposed to “too much free speech. In my view, the public interest is for free expression.”
Unlike other forms of media, radio and network TV stations broadcast over public airwaves, which the FCC polices by issuing broadcast licenses. Federal law authorizes the FCC to ensure licensees serve "the public interest, convenience, and necessity."
ABC has taken Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show off the air indefinitely. The decision came hours after FCC chairman Brendan Carr criticized Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination as “truly sick.
House Democratic leaders called for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr to resign Thursday after ABC announced it would stop airing “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” due to the host’s
Chair Brendan Carr accused Democrats of “distortion” regarding the agency’s role in Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from ABC. “The reality is, there’s a lot of Democrats out there that are engaged in a campaign of projection and distortion.
Brendan Carr, chair of the FCC, has appeared on conservative radio talk shows and Fox News to defend his actions, saying local broadcasters were finally serving audiences tired of biased programming.
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late night on Tuesday earned him his largest television audience in more than a decade, ABC announced on Wednesday.
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