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ABC is asking for its viewers to support the network as it faces scrutiny from the Trump administration challenging whether its daytime table talk program “The View” is a bona fide news program.
The network this week rolled out an on-air campaign promoting the show and blasting the Federal Communications Commission, (FCC) which it says “wants to control who can appear” on “The View,” which has been on the air for more than three decades.
Started by journalist Barbara Walters, “The View” hosts several pundits who are frequently critical of Trump and his supporters.
The campaign comes just weeks after Disney asked the FCC to consider whether the program is exempt from a statutory “equal time” requirement that applies to broadcast news shows.
Those filings from Disney triggered a public comment review period, with FCC Chair Brendan Carr insisting at the time the current law “does not prohibit anyone from having any candidate appear on any show. Rather, Congress intended it to empower voters with more information and encourage more speech.”
Carr earlier this year launched an early review of the broadcast licenses of several Disney-owned and operated local affiliates, a rare move that seeks to determine whether the broadcaster is airing programming that serves, as the FCC puts it, “the public interest.”
The department has separately been investigating Disney over its corporate diversity, equity and inclusion policies while Carr has called for ABC’s late night host Jimmy Kimmel to be pulled off the air, citing a similar public interest statue.
In a statement to The Hill, the FCC said “Disney wants the FCC to classify ‘The View’ as a “bona fide news program. And it has chosen to run a campaign of misinformation to make its case—misleading viewers about the law. That is a choice.”
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