Posted on 07/16/2026 4:21:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Viewers may have to do a little hunting or channel-surfing if they want to watch tonight’s controversial address to the nation from President Donald Trump.
ABC and NBC will opt to stream Trump’s speech at 9 pm EST on their streaming platforms, rather than carry it live on their networks. ABC says that it will broadcast a special report when the speech concludes.
“ABC News will run President Trump’s speech on ABC News Live and ABC News Radio with comprehensive, anchored coverage,” an ABC News spokesperson says. “We will also cover the speech in our regular network newscasts and, as always, our Special Report team is fully prepared to break into network programming to deliver live updates and reporting should significant developments occur.”
Spokespeople for CBS News and Fox News had not responded to a request for comment, as of this writing.
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Woke advertisers can boycott CBS, NBC, CBS, CNN. Those advertisers are organized and run the show. They are left leaning because they target left leaning viewers. Those left leaning viewers buy what those advertisers sell.
The media has trained some of the country to hate Trump. Leading sheep is their occupation.
The media wants to keep the news on a low level. It is a deliberate way to manipulate the masses.
Yes!
Their refusal might backfire. Regular viewers might have some level of curiosity and decide to see the speech on a different media outlet.
Did you vote for Kamala in 2024? You have a bad case of TDS so it couldn’t have been Trump.
Time to pull there licenses.
Those networks do not want Trump to speak the truth. They must censor the truth. Their business is promoting liberals and Socialist movements.
I wondered how long it would take before someone posted this stupid nonsense.
See post 58
So how exactly does the FCC regulate the broadcast networks? What actual power do they have to do that? What actions do they have the authority to take? Canceling licenses of affiliates for not airing programming they aren’t being given seems rather harsh.
Networks engage in cover-up. They must manipulate their sheep against anything Trump.
FCC can fine networks if the networks if the violate regulations for the public interest onbilgations. I would say censoring the presidential speech on a matter of national security does just that. They have a history or=f partisan activities which they can get in trouble for
Instead of being so smug why don’t you actually go look it up and learn something.
They’ve also declined to air speeches from Biden, Obama and GWB. Did they violate the FCC regulations when they did so?
And what specific regulations require broadcasters to carry Presidential speeches? Citations from the FCC rulebook, if you please, and tell me how they apply to this.
They censor Trump and will do nothing to promote Trump. Their mission is to oppose Trump.
Exactly.
“Tonight we want to continue to make ourselves irrelevant”
That’s all they’re accomplishing.
I used to listen. Then Rush died. I haven’t listened to any talk radio since.
Dennis Prager was always on the same time as Rush, I would listen to him during Rush’s commercials. But Dennis had a fall at home, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.
I was driving home from choir practice, and the iHeart Radio station aired the Trump speech live on their Fox News Radio branded stations.
Radio had what television wouldn’t offer.
The other point is the networks now, especially in the summer, are no longer into reruns. Many times, they are committed to original broadcast programming (such as revivals of classic game shows).
I’ll catch Kilmeade, Beck, Hannity, or Levin often on my radio.
Those on FR for more than 20 years are aware that the spelling for Slick and HRotten is ‘KURINTONG’ (using your best Chinese accent).
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