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FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Jimmy Kimmel’s Melania Trump joke

FCC is also investigating the ABC daytime talkshow The View](https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/2024161889761345570) for a potential violation of rules around providing equal time

Senate Democrats press top media regulator Brendan Carr to back off ABC

FCC has two other open investigations into ABC, including one based on [a 2024 complaint](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/fcc-reinstates-complaints-abc-cbs-nbc) about the network’s moderation of a presidential debate and [a more recent probe](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5728540-equal-time-rule-fcc-the-view/)

ABC lawyers accuse Trump’s FCC of punishing network for political reasons

rules because it operated as a “bonafide” news interview program, something Carr has challenged. “The View’s exemption remains valid and the constitutional infirmities in the equal time doctrine are even more pronounced today, when