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“Out of consideration for our local stations…my interview tomorrow with [Senate candidate] James Talarico will not air on television” Kimmel said.

ABC had wanted an earlier hearing and a temporary restraining order halting the FCC early license renewal proceedings against ABC-owned stations

The FCC chair said the lawsuit is part of a `campaign of disinformation' and reiterated the agency's authority under `public interest' rules for broadcast licenses

The court’s intervention `is necessary to stop the [FCC’s] extraordinary assault on free speech’ the suit claims

The FOIA request aims to document a `vendetta against broadcasters who say things the President doesn’t like'

Filing blasts FCC as part of a larger Trump administration effort to create ‘a media industry too fearful of official reprisal to report the news freely’

The comments responded to outside organizations seeking to block the license renewals of ABC's eight owned-and-operated television stations

More than a 100,000 comments, mostly supportive of the stations, have been received in just the last 30 days

The comments were made by former chairs, commissioners, and senior staff who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations

The ACLC joined thousands of other commentators opposing the investigation, calling it a violation of `the constitutional rights of all our nation’s broadcasters’