WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – Walt Disney on Thursday filed applications for early license review with the Federal Communications Commission for its eight ABC television stations after President Donald Trump pressured the regulatory agency to take action.
The early reviews — the first for a major TV broadcaster in more than 50 years — were ordered in April a day after Trump urged ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Disney said the FCC early license renewal order was “unlawful, arbitrary, and unconstitutional” and violates its First Amendment free speech rights. “This effort to suppress speech under the guise of bureaucratic process must not prevail,” Disney added.
(Reporting by David Shepardson)
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