Overview

• Protesters interrupted the FCC’s monthly meeting, chanting for Chair Brendan Carr to be fired before being removed by officers, with additional demonstrators holding signs in the room.
• Carr told reporters he made no threats to broadcasters over Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue, arguing affiliates made business decisions despite his prior “easy way or the hard way” remark.
• The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Carr to stop politicizing the FCC’s powers, citing reopened probes into major broadcasters and alleged threats involving licenses and mergers.
• ABC reversed Kimmel’s brief suspension and returned his show to its slot, and station groups Sinclair and Nexstar resumed carriage after local pressure and advertiser pullback.
• At the meeting, Democratic commissioner Anna M. Gomez criticized Carr’s approach as a pretext to punish disliked speech, while advocacy groups displayed a mobile billboard warning that government cannot control media content.