Late Night TV Covered by FCC's Equal Time Rules for Candidates, Agency Says in New Policy Reminder

FCC: People concerned that the FCC’s public interest standard lacks content will need a new script. Yesterday, the FCC under Chairman Brendan Carr made clear that left-leaning broadcast TV programs like ABC’s The View and Jimmy Kimmel Live need to clean up their act and provide political balance during campaign season to stay in compliance with a federal law on the books since 1959. The agency’s announcement reflected Carr’s concerns that Kimmel and other late-night shows have become a “narrow, partisan circus ... enforcing a very narrow political ideology.” Daniel Suhr, President of the Center for American Rights (CAR) in Chicago, praised Carr’s FCC for seeking political balance. “We’re thrilled that Chairman Carr is taking another important step on behalf of viewers to ensure better broadcasting and the end of left-wing bias on the part of the networks,” Suhr told Breitbart. “I think we all know that daytime and late night talk shows have really just become DNC TV.” (More after paywall.)