FCC Brendan Carr defended his threat to investigate or take action against ABC as part of the agency’s authority to enforce broadcasters’ public interest obligations.

After ABC announced that it was pulling Kimmel’s show indefinitely on Wednesday, Carr appeared on Fox News’ Hannity , telling the host, “We at the FCC are going to enforce the public interest obligation. If there’s broadcasters out there that don’t like it, they can turn their license into the FCC. But that’s our job. And again, we’re making some progress now.”

The FCC’s authority over programming, though, is limited, according to its own website.

“Pursuant to these legal mandates, the FCC has long held that ‘the public interest is best served by permitting free expression of views.’ Rather than suppress speech, c

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