Conservative fight against license renewals for ABC stations heats up

Another salvo in the Republican effort to kill what's left of our nonpartisan media. Friends of Trump have already turned CBS into a Trump fan, and CNN will now not be far behind. Bezos turned the Post into Fox lite. Like Hitler and the Nazis, Trump and Republicans know that their lies and propaganda will not sway all people until they have full control over the media. Conservatives are afraid of the truth.

"A group of prominent conservative organizations has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny license renewal requests from the eight local television stations owned and operated by ABC, accusing the network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting the Chinese communist party.

The petitions come after the commission, led by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, took the nearly unprecedented step of requiring the network, a frequent recipient of attacks from Donald Trump, to apply several years early to maintain its ability to broadcast in markets around the country.

While Carr has said the early license renewal process stems from an FCC investigation into ABC’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, petitioners are free to include a variety of grievances against the network and concerns about whether ABC is operating in the public interest."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/06/abc-license-renewals-fcc