Why Pulling an FCC License Doesn’t Mean What Trump Thinks It Means

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Over the first eight months of this President’s administration, especially over the last few weeks, there have been a number of threats by both the President and the FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to yank the FCC licenses of certain networks that do not appropriately “bend the knee.” That threat ultimately led to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! , but it didn’t stop Carr from continuing to threaten ABC over The View , another ABC program that the President hates.

What a lot of people don’t understand — and, to be honest, I doubt that Donald Trump even understands this — is that you can’t pull ABC’s FCC license. The network itself does not have an FCC license. Affiliate statio

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