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\nABC is officially calling on the Federal Communications Commission to drop its \u201cextraordinary and unprecedented\u201d proceeding to call in the Disney-owned network\u2019s stations for an early broadcast license renewal.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe network has responded to the Brendan Carr-led agency in a new filing Thursday, bringing on veteran litigator Beth Wilkinson to its legal team (Wilkinson also recently signed on to represent Paramount in its antitrust suit filed by state AGs).<\/p>\n

\n\tTo recap: The FCC called ABC\u2019s eight broadcast licenses in for an early renewal earlier this year, which the network did \u201cunder protest.\u201d Ostensibly the decision was about parent company Disney\u2019s DEI policies, though the network noted that just before calling in the licenses, the administration had called for it to take action against late night host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made on his program.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe FCC also launched a separate proceeding examining The View<\/em>, which it argues is not a \u201cbona fide\u201d news program and thus not exempt from FCC equal opportunity rules. ABC responded to that proceeding earlier this month, though in its new filing it says that the FCC \u201cnow appears poised to find that The View <\/em>must provide equal opportunities to all legally qualified political candidates if it interviews one candidate on the show, which would represent a reversal of decades of agency precedent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the FCC\u2019s actions, ABC launched an on-air campaign, urging public support for both its station licenses, and The View.<\/em> Thursday\u2019s filing notes that more than 150,000 comments have been filed, overwhelmingly in support of ABC, including from Republicans and free market organizations, as well as a bipartisan group of former FCC commissioners and officials (interestingly, ABC notes that it used Anthropic\u2019s Claude and OpenAI\u2019s Codex to evaluate the comments, with human reviewers evaluating a random sample to ensure they were accurate).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cFor the first time in history, the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an entire group of local television stations commonly owned with a broadcast network to undergo simultaneous license renewal proceedings well before their current licenses expire,\u201d ABC writes in its new filing. \u201cThat makes these proceedings extraordinary and unprecedented. There is no question why the Commission is singling out these eight stations: Each is owned by ABC, and the Administration has openly and repeatedly called for the revocation of ABC\u2019s licenses, because it dislikes the content and viewpoints expressed on ABC network programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe filing, which you can read here, proceeds to address each of the FCC\u2019s complaints (as well as those filed by some outside interest groups, making the argument that the proceeding must be dismissed. ABC argues that the effort by the FCC is in fact an opening salvo, a warning shot to other media companies.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNor was the message meant for ABC alone.\u00a0The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the Administration\u2019s view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price,\u201d the filing states. \u201cAcross the government, regulatory and contracting carrots and sticks have been trained on other disfavored speakers. The tools vary; the objective does not: a media industry too fearful of official reprisal to report the news freely.\u201d<\/p>\n

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