First Amendment

DOJ appeals decision against banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House

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

The regulator is requiring eight ABC-owned stations to go through an early license renewal process, something no network O&O has ever been ordered to do

Public notice says the government could get ‘billions’ by auctioning broadcast spectrum and asserted its the power to yank licenses for ‘engaging in news distortion’

Sens. Markey, Schumer, Cantwell and Luján are demanding that FCC stop First Amendment attacks on Disney, ABC

Ex-FCC officials, RTDNA ask court to compel the agency to respond to an earlier petition asking to repeal policies that ‘chill free speech’

Local stations remain a critical buffer against shifting regulatory norms, panelists say

Threats to remove broadcast licences over critical news coverage are “grounded in neither reality nor law and would not survive judicial review” the Commissioner said.

FCC Democratic senator says the agency’s new guidance for talk and late-night TV is a ‘partisan censorship scheme’