technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Gestapo USA@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 days agoAfter getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallonarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1196arrow-down11cross-posted to: television@piefed.socialtechnology@lemmit.onlinepolitics@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1195arrow-down1external-linkAfter getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallonarstechnica.comtechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Gestapo USA@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 days agomessage-square11linkfedilinkcross-posted to: television@piefed.socialtechnology@lemmit.onlinepolitics@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squarejacksilver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·24 days agoCause they already got his show canceled in exchange for approval of the Paramount merger - https://fortune.com/2025/07/18/why-was-stephen-colbert-canceled-by-cbs-paramount-trump/
minus-squarejacksilver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·24 days agoKinda sad so many are being attacked that we can’t keep them straight.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 days agoIf they take Stewart off the air he’ll be pressured into running for office.
minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 days agoHarder to threaten cable channels legally. FCC has a lot of control over broadcast channels.
Cause they already got his show canceled in exchange for approval of the Paramount merger - https://fortune.com/2025/07/18/why-was-stephen-colbert-canceled-by-cbs-paramount-trump/
Fuck me, I meant Jon Stewart!
Kinda sad so many are being attacked that we can’t keep them straight.
If they take Stewart off the air he’ll be pressured into running for office.
Harder to threaten cable channels legally. FCC has a lot of control over broadcast channels.