6abc is warning viewers about the FCC taking away its TV license. Here's what's going on. [View all]

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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Published June 23, 2026, 11:04 a.m. ET


On Monday, 6abc issued a warning for viewers to take action to prevent Action News from disappearing from TV screens across the Delaware Valley. “The FCC is questioning our commitment to viewers by threatening to take us off the air,” a message from the station read.


Message shown by 6abc warning viewers about the FCC reviewing their broadcast license.
ABC

So what’s going on? Most local news stations are owned by separate companies, but 6abc is one of eight owned and operated by ABC, whose parent company is Disney. In April, the Federal Communications Commission launched an early review of the broadcast licenses for those eight stations. The review came shortly after President Donald Trump called for ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be fired over a joke he made involving first lady Melania Trump.

FCC commissioner Anna M. Gomez, the only remaining Democrat on the three-member panel, wrote in a May letter to Disney the company had “been made a target” by Trump’s FCC, and that targeting local stations “is an extraordinary and dangerous misapplication” of the agency’s authority.

“What Disney and ABC are facing is not a series of coincidental regulators actions but a sustained, coordinated campaign of censorship and control,” Gomez wrote, “carried out through the weaponization of the FCC’s authority as a federal regulator and aimed at pressuring a free and independent press and all media into submission.”

Read more: https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/media/6abc-philadelphia-fcc-trump-abc-20260623.html

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