{"id":2368,"date":"2026-04-29T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:22:00","slug":"fcc-challenges-abc-licensing-after-refusing-to-fire-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"FCC challenges ABC licensing after refusing to fire Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>The Federal Communications Commission is seeking early renewal for all eight station licenses owned by ABC related to the broadcaster&#8217;s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.<\/p>\n<p>While the license review pertains to the Disney-owned media company&#8217;s alleged discrimination, the federal agency&#8217;s decision comes shortly after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump called for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be fired following a controversial monologue on his show.<\/p>\n<p>Disney and ABC have so far refused to take Kimmel off the air, unlike last fall, when the host caught flak for making misleading comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination last fall. At the time, Kimmel&#8217;s show was briefly suspended following pressure from broadcast station owners Nexstar and Sinclair&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/news\/2026-04-29-0700\/media-industry-fcc-challenges-abc-licensing-after-refusing-fire-jimmy-kimmel\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission is seeking early renewal for all eight station licenses owned by ABC related to the broadcaster&#8217;s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. While the license review pertains to the Disney-owned media company&#8217;s alleged discrimination, the federal agency&#8217;s decision comes shortly after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump called for late-night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}