CNN: Network Execs Fear Retaliation By The Felon

CNN reports:

National networks like CBS are not licensed, but local stations are. (And the parent company of CBS, Paramount Global, owns some local stations.) The licensing agency is the government’s FCC, which grants eight-year license terms, and hasn’t denied any license renewal in decades. Still, there is a conceivable chilling effect. Trump’s threats have grown so insistent that some TV industry executives have speculated that they could be vulnerable to some sort of retaliation if Trump returns to power.

In response to CNN’s request for comment, the National Association of Broadcasters, the trade association for American TV and radio operators, said Trump’s rhetoric undermines First Amendment freedoms. Earlier in the year, he said of NBC and CNN, “they should have their licenses or whatever they have taken away.” CNN,

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