Dear FCC: Jesse Watters just suggested ‘blowing up’ the U.N.
Bomb the United Nations headquarters. Or maybe gas it. Fox News host Jesse Watters had plenty of ideas about how to punish the U.N. after…
Trump, Carr push boundaries of broadcast law, FCC authority
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The FCC is prohibited from influencing network content but Chairman Brendan Carr and President Donald Trump have used pressure campaigns on…
Bonta demands FCC chair ‘stop his campaign of censorship’ following Kimmel suspension
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta on Monday accused Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr of unlawfully intimidating television broadcasters into toeing a conservative line in…
Web of business interests complicates decisions about Kimmel’s future
NEW YORK — The decision about whether to keep Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night ABC show depends on far more than his jokes. The choice is complicated…
Is Trump targeting Kimmel, broadcast TV because he was fired by NBC?
The recent suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is an attack on democracy. Though not necessarily the democracy one might think.Free speech is protected by the…
Who exactly are the ABC affiliate owners who issued statements against Jimmy Kimmel?
NEW YORK — Two ABC affiliate owners spoke out against late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel ahead of ABC’s decision to suspend the presenter over comments…
Behind the decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel: Trump FCC threats and charges of corporate cowardice
On a Wednesday podcast, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said ABC had to act on Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the killing of right wing…
Kimmel. Colbert. Who’s next in the war against free speech? Not Gutfeld
Jimmy Kimmel’s show is gone. So is Stephen Colbert’s. And if President Trump has his way, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon will be next.In the…
AT&T to buy EchoStar Spectrum licenses for about $23 billion
EchoStar Corp. has agreed to sell spectrum licenses to AT&T Inc. for about $23 billion in a deal that will help the company stay out…
FCC approves Skydance-Paramount $8B merger
July 24 (UPI) -- The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced its approval of Skydance's $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global, ending months of uncertainty…
FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger following protracted political tug-of-war
David Ellison stepped within reach of his hard-fought prize, Paramount Global, after winning regulators’ blessing for his Skydance Media’s $8-billion takeover of the storied media…
DEI is dead at Paramount, David Ellison’s Skydance promises FCC
David Ellison’s Skydance Media pledged to abandon all diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Paramount Global in an attempt to win government approval for its…
T-Mobile drops DEI program while awaiting FCC approval to buy U.S. Cellular
T-Mobile announced Friday that it intends to remove its diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The company awaits FCC approval to buy US Cellular. File Photo…
Press group adds high-powered attorneys in fight against Paramount
With new legal muscle, the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation is upping pressure on Paramount Global to abandon efforts to settle President Trump’s $20-billion…
Paramount adds three new board members amid Trump troubles and FCC review
With its sale to Skydance Media still beyond its reach, Paramount Global has nominated three new directors to bolster its small board, which has been…
FCC commissioner sounds alarms about free speech ‘chilling effect’ under Trump
Federal Communications Commissioner Anna M. Gomez traveled to Los Angeles this week to sound an alarm that attacks on the media by President Trump and…
Trump, ‘60 Minutes’ and corruption allegations put Paramount on edge with sale less certain
One fateful October decision to trim two convoluted sentences from a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris has snowballed into a full-blown corporate…
Trump’s FCC delays multilingual emergency alerts for natural disasters
California Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán urged the Federal Communications Commission on Monday to follow through on plans to modernize the federal emergency alert system and…
Verizon wins FCC approval for $9.6-billion Frontier acquisition
Verizon Communications Inc. won Federal Communications Commission approval for its $9.6-billion acquisition of Frontier Communications Parent Inc. after agreeing to agency demands to pare back…
FCC Member Urges Bill to Curtail Cable Indecency
Congress should consider a bill to curb sex and obscenity on television even after cable TV companies Monday said they planned to offer packages of…