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It saddens me that CBS is increasingly expanding this idea of VR studios. The standard implemented in Los Angeles, Denver, and Chicago would be great for their O&Os.

Im probably going to get some fallout from this post, but im going to go ahead anyway.. According to what I've read, there is basically a zero chance that these stations are going to be off the air if nothing is done. These stations collectively, are the most watched in the nation and highest rated stations in arguably this part of the world. They've set the standard and culturally defined how we watched local news today. So I respectfully do not understand their unnecessary inflammatory drama to confuse the public. Honestly this is the issue, all of this public alarmist method of communication these days is what is strengthening the division and clash. Respectfully, they are entitled to voice their concerns for sure, but is it really that serious enough? Can someone help me understand what their intent is behind all of this?

If this madness was not going on, this thread would definitely not be here but regardless of what has happened, I feel that enough happens at the ABC O&Os nowadays for this thread to logically be here, so I am thinking about the present and the future here as you clearly see.

General threads are not permitted, anymore, HOWEVER, the FCC stuff is enough to probably warrant its own thread.

Are they really going to run their newscasts off of one camera at the temporary anchor desk?

He posted this at about 9a CT Monday.

Thankfully ABC doesn’t seem to be as feckless as you believe they should be. If Jimmy can’t make the joke about their age gap, then why did Trump make a similar remark about the age gap just yesterday? This ridiculous capitulation and self-censoring is frankly a very idiotic suggestion.

I watch a lot of ABC and definitely haven’t gotten the impression of state run media. Kind of absurd to claim that of the network employing Mary Bruce, Rachel Smith and George Stephanopoulos who are fearless in their pursuits of truth through all of this administration’s lies. On top of that, Disney has pretty immediately signaled they won’t be rolling over. Brian Stelter even reported this afternoon that Disney has signaled to station groups that contractual obligations to carry network programming will be enforced.

The thing that gets me is this joke about 'old man about to die with a young wife' has been around for decades. It's the last half of Anna Nicole Smith's life. We pretty much can count like clockwork when Rupert Murdoch has had enough of last decade's wife and wants a new one. Leonardo DiCaprio has an entire legend about how he moves on the moment his girlfriend turns 25! I'm more offended by 'fat man/thin wife' sitcoms much more than I ever will be 'lol they're marrying a hot young lady before they die'. It wasn't even that vicious of a joke, it was just the most benign 'we're waiting for the funeral' jab that's been made since that man moved from Marla Maples to Melania. The biggest station revocation came only because KDND literally killed someone in a contest, so there's no way this is a serious effort to challenge licenses because the station cannot possibly control what the network airs, even if they are owned by them, and we're not in a situation like the Super Bowl halftime show. KTRK isn't going to get anyone in Houston whining about a lead balloon punchline, and nor is WPVI. Docking a license just because of a tired joke just feels petty and lame, especially when you've had a national news operation sanewash their way towards a national newscast that's just now a big-budget Inside Edition rather than a full sum-up of today's events (and which is happy to pre-empt anything on the schedule, like they did deciding the last five minutes of General Hospital didn't need to be seen so David Muir could show video of politicians chatting and remind us of how King Charles is).

What's so crazy to me is this is happening not because ABC News is doing good journalism and covering trump accurately, ABC News sanewashes, justifies, and downplays everything trump does just like the rest of U.S. television news media, it's because of an entertainment late night talk show. Disney has destroyed the credibility of ABC News and made it look no different than state TV in other authoritarian countries yet they are still a target because they didn't cancel their late night talk show like CBS did. The FCC is signaling that you can turn your entire news organization into pro U.S. government propaganda and still be a target if you air any entertainment programming that is critical of the evil fascist U.S. government. For the U.S. news media, it's fine for trump to order the killing of innocent people, fine for him to order the U.S. "law enforcement" to grab innocent people off the street and send them to torture camps with no due process, fine to put thousands of innocent children who have committed no crime themselves in awful prisons because their parents brought them to the country illegally. Fine for him to threaten to kill a "whole civilisation" , But his life is so precious that any joke about his life ending is just so awful and when someone tries to take his life it's not okay for the news media to be "neutral" like it pretends to be for everything else, When Jeffrey Epstein died the U.S. news media was not saying his death was tragic, but any attempt to take trumps life is beyond horrible and when he finally dies the U.S. news media will act like his death is a devastating somber event. If nobody deserves to be shot and killed no matter what, where was the outrage when secret service shot and killed the first person who tried to shoot trump? The U.S. government shoots and kills people all the time when there are non-lethal alternatives and it's no big deal. Death is only tragic to the U.S. news media when it's evil far right wing Americans. Just making a joke about the death of a right wing president who has ordered the murder of thousands of people is enough for massive outrage and the FCC coming after you.