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Got an opinion on whether ABC’s “The View” qualifies as a bona fide news interview program? The FCC wants to know–or does it? “Let’s not pretend this FCC hasn’t already made up its mind. All they want is for their pro-censorship partisan allies to nod in agreement,” FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez said after Friday’s Media Bureau notice opening a proceeding t...

When CNN relaunched its FAST channel last summer, the network didn’t pitch it as a revenue play or a hedge against cord-cutting. Instead, CNN Headlines was viewed as more experimental and a space where the news outlet could test strategies that might ultimately reshape how it programs everything else—all while tapping into new audience demographics and figuring ...

It’ll be after Memorial Day before all the comments filed in the FCC’s ratings proceeding are public, but there were already some passionate responses in the docket Friday. “Content warnings that specifically single out LGBTQI+ people, includ...

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Stephen Colbert said farewell to CBS and “The Late Show” on Thursday night, and he went out with a bang. Preliminary data from Nielsen indicates 6.74 million L+SD viewers tuned in, making it the program’s largest weeknight audience ever. Colbert’s final season ended with an average of 2.69 million viewers. His best episode came a decade ago when 20.55 mi...