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When he's not busy manipulating the networks to make late-night television as Donald Trump-friendly as possible, Trump's FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, has decided to take on the role of "national network programmer" with some scary thoughts and advice to the networks on how they can best celebrate the U.S.'s 250th anniversary this year[...]

If you've been following the headlines over the past 72 hours, then you know that late-night host Stephen Colbert revealed to his audience on Monday night that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air as planned due to network concerns about retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr The concern was that Carr would[...]

It began on Monday night when late-night host Stephen Colbert told his audience that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air due to network concerns about retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr The network's concern was that Carr would penalize CBS under the "equal time" rule, even though that doesn't apply to talk shows,[...]

It appears we have a game of "he said/broadcast network said" on our hands. On Monday night, late-night host Stephen Colbert told his audience that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air due to network concerns about retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr The network's concern was that Carr would penalize CBS under the "equal[...]

On Monday night, late-night host Stephen Colbert told his audience that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air due to network concerns about retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr The network's concern was that Carr would penalize CBS under the "equal time" rule, even though that doesn't apply to talk shows, and a formal[...]

Discovery and the controversial calls being made over at CBS News by Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, late-night host Stephen Colbert shared with his audience on Monday night that his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico would not air due to network concerns over retaliation from FCC chair Brendan Carr What makes Colbert's on-air admission even[...]

Mark Alford, who took to social media to demand that Brendan Carr's FCC  investigate the big event According to Fine, the performance was "woke garbage" and "vulgar and disgusting content" that needed to be "put to an end." If the reporting from The New York Post's Charles Gasparino is correct, someone is going to have[...]

FCC Chair Brendan Carr has discussed Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show being pulled from ABC on a podcast and during a conference Now, it looks like the Senate Commerce Committee would like Carr to answer some questions they have on the matter A spokesperson for the committee confirmed to Variety that Carr has agreed to[...]

Continuing a move that screams "Project 2025," POtuS Donald Trump's FCC head lackey Brendan Carr announced that he was following up last month's news that the FCC would be investigating NBCUniversal and Comcast for its diversity, equity, and inclusions policies (DEI) by also opening an investigation into Disney and ABC "I have asked the [FCC's][...]

In terms of POTUS Donald Trump's $10B lawsuit against the news magazine and network and Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) demanding it, CBS News' 60 Minutes wanted to make clear that they have nothing to hide Earlier today, the news program posted online all of the materials that it handed over to the FCC –[...]

Should Federal Election Commission and/or FCC look into this?" Saturday Night Live (Image: NBCU) We're guessing you know where this is going, right? Not content to just let it go (really?), The Daily Beast reported that Trump spoke to advisers and legal counsel about siccing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the court systems, and (most disturbing and confusing)[...]

Starz has filed two petitions with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as a move to legally require Altice to restore the channels to their NYC-based Optimum Systems In the first petition, Starz argues that Altice broke FCC rules by removing the channels before the 30-day notice period The second petition asks the commission to require[...]

It's still real to us, dammit! MMA fighter Jonno Mears scored an usual victory at Full Contact Contender's FCC 19 event last weekend Mears forced his opponent, Aaron Jones, to tap out to a classic pro wrestling move, as captured on video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMMigjW3q78Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Bolton Crab – First ever MMA[...]