2026-05-28 20:04:13 / 路透社
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- 摘要
- 企业
- 特朗普多次施压美国联邦通信委员会吊销ABC牌照
- FCC称其正在执行公共利益规则
- ABC称FCC行动违反第一修正案言论自由权利
华盛顿5月28日路透电 – 华特迪士尼旗下ABC周四向美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）提交申请，要求对其旗下8家自营电视台进行提前牌照审查，此前美国总统唐纳德·特朗普曾施压该监管机构采取行动。
此次提前审查是50多年来首次针对大型电视广播公司的此类审查，于4月下令，就在特朗普敦促ABC解雇深夜脱口秀主持人吉米·坎摩尔一天后。迪士尼表示，FCC的提前牌照续期命令“非法、专断且违宪”，违反了第一修正案规定的言论自由权利。
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“这种打着官僚程序幌子压制言论的行为绝不能得逞，”ABC补充道。“这是对单一公司全部广播牌照组合史无前例的攻击。”
FCC上月表示，这些原本应于2028年10月才启动的审查，是基于该委员会对非法歧视禁令展开的为期一年的调查。这8家电视台分别位于弗雷斯诺、洛杉矶、芝加哥、旧金山、纽约、费城、休斯顿以及北卡罗来纳州达勒姆。
FCC周四未立即置评。
特朗普曾多次敦促广播公司停播他不喜欢或批评他的喜剧或新闻节目，并施压监管机构吊销他认为对自己不公的广播公司牌照。
民主党籍FCC委员安娜·戈麦斯表示，特朗普政府正通过一系列大范围监管行动，有针对性地审查迪士尼及其ABC电视网。
FCC还在调查ABC日间脱口秀节目《观点》，认定该节目需遵守联邦政治候选人平等时间规则。
FCC主席布伦丹·卡尔于2025年3月启动对迪士尼多元化实践的调查，并表示迪士尼提交的调查文件他认为不够充分。他拒绝透露康卡斯特和NBC的多元化实践审查是否会导致当地提前启动牌照审查。
ABC驳斥了其反歧视政策违反委员会规则的说法。
该公司补充称，其认为此次程序是在寻找法律借口以实现其既定目标。ABC表示，这一目标“旨在为可能的牌照吊销做准备，并迫使电视台及其他机构在发表可能令政府不悦的言论前三思而后行”。
去年11月，特朗普因批评ABC新闻一名记者在采访沙特王储时就2018年华盛顿邮报专栏作家被杀事件提问，称该记者“不服从”，随后要求FCC吊销ABC牌照。
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ABC files early station license renewals, calls effort illegitimate
2026-05-28 20:04:13 / Reuters
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- Summary
- Companies
- Trump has repeatedly pressured the FCC to pull ABC license
- FCC says it is enforcing public interest rules
- ABC says FCC action violates First Amendment free speech rights
WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – Walt Disney
unit ABC on Thursday filed applications for early license review with the Federal Communications Commission for its eight company owned 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.
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“This effort to suppress speech under the guise of bureaucratic process must not prevail,” ABC added. “It is an unprecedented attack on a single company’s entire portfolio of broadcast licenses.”
The FCC said last month the reviews, which were not supposed to begin until October 2028, were prompted by a year-long probe on the FCC’s ban on unlawful discrimination. The stations are located in Fresno, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Houston and Durham, North Carolina.
The FCC did not immediately comment Thursday.
Trump has repeatedly urged broadcasters to drop comedy or news programs he dislikes or which have been critical of him, pressing regulators to revoke licenses of broadcasters he says are unfair to him.
Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez says the Trump administration is engaged in a targeted effort to censor Disney and its ABC network through a series of sweeping regulatory actions.
The FCC is also investigating ABC daytime talk show “The View” after declaring it is subject to federal equal time rules for political candidates.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr opened an investigation in March 2025 into Disney’s diversity practices and said Disney submitted documents in the probe that he felt were insufficient. He declined to say if a similar review of diversity practices at Comcast and NBC could lead to an early review there.
ABC rejected the argument that its nondiscrimination policies violated commission rules.
The company added it believed the proceeding was an exercise to search for a legal pretext to achieve its desired goal. The goal is “to ramp up toward possible license revocation and cause the station and others to think twice before they say something the government might dislike,” ABC said.
In November, Trump demanded the FCC revoke ABC licenses after he criticized an ABC News correspondent for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince about the 2018 killing of a Washington Post columnist in a question he dubbed “insubordinate.”
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Stephen Coates
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