Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC
ABC: FCC order “has no legitimate purpose”
ABC submitted individual filings for WABC-TV in New York; WPVI-TV in Philadelphia; WTVD in Durham, North Carolina; WLS-TV in Chicago; KGO-TV in San Francisco; KFSN-TV in Fresno, California; KTRK-TV in Houston; and KABC-TV in Los Angeles.
The station “submits this license renewal application under protest in response to an unlawful, arbitrary, and unconstitutional Order issued on April 28, 2026, by the Media Bureau,” ABC’s filings said. “The Commission had not demanded early renewal in over five decades. And it has never before demanded simultaneous license renewal applications from a group of stations commonly owned with a network as it has here. The Order has no legitimate purpose.”
ABC said it was filing the applications without waiving any rights and called on the FCC to rescind the order.
“There is no information that the application will reveal that the Commission could not obtain through...
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