"Late Show host Stephen Colbert and his network, CBS, are still at odds over why his planned interview with James Talarico, a Democratic candidate for a Texas U.S. Senate seat, didn't air last Monday. In Colbert's account, CBS lawyers forbid the broadcast after Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said talk show interviews might trigger the FCC's equal time rule, which requires broadcasters to give equivalent airtime to competing candidates if requested."
"Its parent company, Paramount Skydance, is currently trying to engineer a takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal that would require approval by the Trump administration's Department of Justice. Given that the FCC was already investigating ABC's The View over a Talarico interview, Carr-the guy who managed to get Jimmy Kimmel knocked off the air for four nights last September-could have seized on a Late Show interview as a provocation."
A game was created using Claude Code and released alongside observations about collaborating with AI on programming. Stephen Colbert's planned interview with James Talarico did not air on CBS amid conflicting accounts about lawyers and FCC equal-time concerns. Colbert says CBS lawyers forbade the broadcast after FCC chair Brendan Carr warned interviews might trigger equal-time obligations; CBS says lawyers only raised the equal-time issue. Colbert uploaded the interview to YouTube, which is not subject to the equal-time rule, and the clip exceeded eight million views—more than triple typical live/DVR viewership. Paramount Skydance's corporate dealings and prior FCC actions increased sensitivity around the segment.
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