{"id":1029610,"date":"2026-08-19T07:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029610"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:19:40","slug":"disney-sues-fcc-over-challenge-to-broadcast-licenses-claims-retaliation-over-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/disney-sues-fcc-over-challenge-to-broadcast-licenses-claims-retaliation-over-jimmy-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney sues FCC over challenge to broadcast licenses, claims retaliation over &#8216;Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Disney filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration&#8217;s Federal Communications Commission alleging a violation of its First Amendment rights. <\/p>\n<p>The suit comes after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Friday recently defended the agency&#8217;s actions against ABC, saying broadcasters have a duty to &#8220;operate in the public interest&#8221; and the FCC is merely trying to restore that standard. <\/p>\n<p>Carr has said the country should have a &#8220;trusted, respected news media, and we&#8217;re not there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Disney filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration&#8217;s Federal Communications Commission alleging a violation of its First Amendment rights. The suit comes after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Friday recently defended the agency&#8217;s actions against ABC, saying broadcasters have a duty to &#8220;operate in the public interest&#8221; and the FCC is merely trying to restore that standard. Carr has said the country should have a &#8220;trusted, respected news media, and we&#8217;re not there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029632,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029610\/revisions\/1029632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}