{"id":1030087,"date":"2026-08-20T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030087"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:25:04","slug":"abc-network-accuses-trump-of-pressure-tactics-sues-over-probe-into-disney-owned-tv-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/abc-network-accuses-trump-of-pressure-tactics-sues-over-probe-into-disney-owned-tv-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC network accuses Trump of pressure tactics, sues over probe into Disney-owned TV licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC is accusing US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration of employing pressure tactics that have forced the television network to make programming compromises such as refraining from booking political candidates on its popular daytime talk show, &#8220;The View,&#8221; for fear of retaliation. <\/p>\n<p>The network and its parent company Disney sued the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday in an effort to block the agency&#8217;s unusual early review of broadcast licenses for eight Disney-owned local TV stations. They argue that the administration is unlawfully seeking to punish the network over its broadcast content and force changes in its programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC is accusing US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration of employing pressure tactics that have forced the television network to make programming compromises such as refraining from booking political candidates on its popular daytime talk show, &#8220;The View,&#8221; for fear of retaliation. The network and its parent company Disney sued the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday in an effort to block the agency&#8217;s unusual early review of broadcast licenses for eight Disney-owned local TV stations. They argue that the administration is unlawfully seeking to punish the network over its broadcast content and force changes in its programming.<\/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":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030087","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=1030087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030100,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030087\/revisions\/1030100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}