ABC Launches Ad Campaign Challenging FCC Amid License Review (2)

Walt Disney Co.’s ABC launched an on-air campaign asking viewers to support the network in two proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission—a push the agency characterized as “misleading” to viewers.

The regulatory body is reviewing whether the morning chat show The View should be required to provide equal time for political candidates with opposing views when it books people seeking public office as guests. The commission also began an early review of ABC’s broadcast licenses amid a probe of the network’s policies on diversity and inclusion.

Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin on the set of The View.

Photographer: Lou Rocco/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc./Getty Images

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