The president snapped after watching a TV show he didn’t like and said CBS should lose its license.
Donald Trump on Sunday called for “maximum fines and punishment” against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, over Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.
In two separate posts on his Truth Social website, Trump complained about the show’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last year ― which he is suing the company over ― and railed against Sunday night’s reports on Greenland and the war in Ukraine.
FCC: “No.”
But he was put there by Trump, so he’ll do it. Just like all these other agencies.
You mean the FCC chair that has recently taken to wearing a pin with Trump’s fat fucking face on it? I think you mean…
FCC: Sure thing, bossman.
Yeah, but only because “CBS” doesn’t have a broadcast license, stations do.
Also, cable TV doesn’t use “broadcast licenses”, and IPTV & streaming certainly don’t.
A lot of what Trump does makes sense when you realize his brain ossified in 1982.
If that were true he wouldn’t be such a fanboy for Russia. He didn’t become an asset for them until 1987.
Couldn’t they put penalties on all individual stations broadcasting CBS?
Effectively forcing them to stop broadcasting?
I’m curious because I like a lot of shows on CBS. Though I watch it on cable which you are saying is not regulated by the FCC?
It’s not that the FCC doesn’t regulate cable, it’s that cable doesn’t have broadcast licenses. No spectrum license to revoke.
The path to regulating a cable TV channel is not a straightforward one in the US. If it was, cable news a la Fox would have been in the crosshairs devades ago.