[radu]

I sent ABC an email yesterday asking them to please air the program as-is.
Today, I received an automated email from them with this sweet statement included......

"Note: The Company's long-established policy does not allow us to accept for review or consideration any ideas, suggestions, or creative materials not solicited by us or our subsidiaries. Therefore, in the event that you have submitted such content, please be advised that the submission has been forwarded to the Company's legal department for handling."

In my email today, following this reply from them, I stated I had heard they'd made changes due to complaints from political figures and such, and that I had trouble believing they were "solicited" by ABC.
Then said, IF this was true I'd not be tuning in those evenings.

Gotta wonder if the last sentence in that paragraph is supposed to be a scare tactic. Sure comes across as threatening, doesn't it?
Doggone their luck......it didn't "skeer" me. :-)

[Xenalyte]

Gotta wonder if the last sentence in that paragraph is supposed to be a scare tactic. Sure comes across as threatening, doesn't it?

That's everyday legalese for "If you want to give us an idea, the lawyers have to touch it first."

Just about every media company in America subscribes to that policy, for protection from litigation by angry creative types insisting that "someone stole my idea."

So unless you view a statement of standard office procedure as "threatening," the answer is no, it doesn't come across as threatening at all.