I’m confused. Can you lose your license/channel/whatever it’s called because you are partisan?
i dont know
I have no idea what the conditions are to yank a license. All I know is, if you have to have a license, you essentially need the governments permission to broadcast. So what the hell is Sassafrass talkin’ about. These mutts don’t even understand the Constitution for F’s sake.
The whole gist of Trump’s remark was NOT partisanship, per se, but FAKE NEWS. NBC put out a mendacious story that Trump wants to increase the U.S. nuclear arsenal “ten-fold”. That, of course is a blatant lie.
Partisan no, but lying and deceiving yes.
Losing a license is remotely possible for an over-the-air broadcast station, although it's not a realistic scenario in the least.
But in any event:
The "networks" aren't licensed by the FCC or any other comparable gov't body. So the question is basically moot.
(Some of the networks also hold a few over-the-air broadcast licenses. But it's inconceivable that a federal appeals court would ever uphold an FCC decision to revoke a broadcast license just because a deliberately false news story was run on the parent network. Just not the way the law is gonna work.)