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Broadcast Licenses Spark Free Speech Concerns

Updated 2026-05-28 20:05 UTC 2 sources Negative

The Walt Disney Co. and ABC are challenging the FCC's demand for early renewal applications of their broadcast licenses, citing a threat to free speech. The move is seen as an 'extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion.'

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ABC Tells FCC Its Early Review Of Broadcast Licenses Chills Free Speech: “An Extraordinary Demonstration Of Power And Coercion”

The Walt Disney Co. and ABC are once again pushing back on the FCC, this time over the agency’s demand that it file early renewal applications for its broadcast licenses, a move that the company calls a threat to the First Amendment. “It is an extraordinary demonstration of power and coe

2026-05-28 19:48 UTC