{"id":2251839,"date":"2026-01-26T22:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2251839"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:17:40","slug":"why-pennsylvania-gov-josh-shapiro-guesting-on-colbert-wont-trigger-the-fccs-equal-time-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-pennsylvania-gov-josh-shapiro-guesting-on-colbert-wont-trigger-the-fccs-equal-time-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Guesting on Colbert Won\u2019t Trigger the FCC\u2019s \u201cEqual Time\u201d Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Pennsylvania Gov. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10081472\/\">Josh Shapiro<\/a> is guesting on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0170306\/\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u2019s The Late Show Monday, and there isn\u2019t anything <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0042869\/\">FCC<\/a> head <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1419715\/\">Brendan Carr<\/a> can do about it \u2014 or as a result of it.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Federal Communications Commission released new guidance that could revoke the exemption to its \u201cequal time\u201d rules that daytime and late-night talk shows have enjoyed since the \u201990s. Basically, the equal time policy requires TV stations to provide equivalent amounts of air time to political candidates on both sides of the same election. (The onus is not on the specific show or even the broadcast network \u2014 it is the individual stations that must balance the scales. It\u2019s also a bit on the campaigns themselves. When free time is provided to a candidate, a record is placed in the station\u2019s political file. Opposing candidates can then submit an equal opportunities request.) Often the discrepancy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is guesting on Stephen Colbert\u2019s The Late Show Monday, and there isn\u2019t anything FCC head Brendan Carr can do about it \u2014 or as a result of it. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission released new guidance that could revoke the exemption to its \u201cequal time\u201d rules that daytime and late-night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2251839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Why-Pennsylvania-Gov-Josh-Shapiro-Guesting-on-Colbert-Wont-Trigger.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251841,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251839\/revisions\/2251841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}