Days after Disney fired back at Donald Trump‘s FCC commissioner’s threats to reconsider the company’s broadcast licenses for ABC, the network is now taking action to oppose the administration’s targeting of The View for the so-called “equal time” rule.
As detailed by Variety, ABC has filed a petition to oppose the FCC’s order for one of its affiliates to formally ask for a decision as to whether the daytime talk show qualifies for the news exception to the “equal time” rule for candidate interviews.
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