"The statement specifically said the FCC was concerned with networks' airing of late night and daytime talk shows. Currently hosted by Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farah, Sarah Haines, Sunny Hostin, and Ana Navarro, The View has long been an object of scorn for conservatives. Fox News reported: A source at the FCC told Fox News Digital that Monday's View appearance by Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico triggered the probe."
"There has been a longstanding bona fide exception for news programming that wouldn't require equal time for an opposing candidate, but the FCC now says it has not been presented with any evidence that the interview portion of any late-night or daytime television talk show program on the air presently would qualify for the bona fide' news exemption. ABC's parent company, Disney, never made an equal-time filing to the FCC regarding Talarico's recent appearance,"
The Federal Communications Commission opened an investigation into ABC's The View under the rarely-enforced equal-time rule enacted in 1934 to prevent politically one-sided broadcast programming. The probe was triggered by a recent appearance by Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. The FCC announced guidance to ABC, CBS, and NBC on compliance with the Communications Act and cited concerns about late-night and daytime talk shows. The agency says it has not been presented with evidence that interview segments of such talk shows qualify for the longstanding bona fide news exception. Disney did not file an equal-time notice regarding the appearance.
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