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So FALLON's tousling KRASNOV got him status of last-standing?! - n/t (Original Post) UTUSN Sep 2025 OP
Was Seth Meyers thrown off the air today also? Eliot Rosewater Sep 2025 #1
Idk, but does NBC have a license renewal pending like the others? UTUSN Sep 2025 #2
ABC doesn't have a license they don't need a license, Eliot Rosewater Sep 2025 #3
"local stations" - you're correct but from littlemisssmarty thread UTUSN Sep 2025 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
3. ABC doesn't have a license they don't need a license,
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:26 AM
Sep 2025

Individual stations have the licenses. It’s true that some of the stations were upset with Kimmel but you know those are right wingers of course.

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
4. "local stations" - you're correct but from littlemisssmarty thread
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:55 AM
Sep 2025

"AI Overview
Following comments made by host Jimmy Kimmel, ABC is under scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which could potentially affect the license renewals for its local stations. The FCC does not license networks like ABC, but rather the individual stations that carry the network's programming, some of which ABC owns directly."

*** ABC merger
"this is not abc pulling kimmel this is nexstar, which is trying to merge with tegna to become the new more powerful sinclair, refusing to air kimmel on its abc affiliates."




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