{"id":2257118,"date":"2026-01-29T22:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2257118"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:58:33","slug":"fcc-chairman-responds-to-kimmel-after-equal-time-rule-change-if-youre-fake-news-youre-not-going-to-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fcc-chairman-responds-to-kimmel-after-equal-time-rule-change-if-youre-fake-news-youre-not-going-to-qualify\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Chairman Responds to Kimmel After Equal Time Rule Change: \u2018If You\u2019re Fake News, You\u2019re Not Going to Qualify\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FCC<\/a> chairman Brendan Carr<\/a> responded to ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> after the host weighed in on the agency\u2019s new \u201cequal opportunities\u201drule guidance, which will exclude late night and daytime talk shows from receiving a bona fide news exemption.<\/p>\n

Under the Communications Act of 1934, Congress put protections in place<\/p>\n

to ensure equal access to broadcast station facilities for legally qualified candidates for office, regardless of political affiliation. The rule covers individuals who have publicly announced their intention to run for office and qualify under applicable state or federal law to hold the office being sought.<\/p>\n

In 2006, the FCC determined that \u201cThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno<\/a>\u201d qualified for an…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FCC chairman Brendan Carr responded to ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel after the host weighed in on the agency\u2019s new \u201cequal opportunities\u201drule guidance, which will exclude late night and daytime talk shows from receiving a bona fide news exemption. Under the Communications Act of 1934, Congress put protections in place to ensure equal access to broadcast station […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2257119,"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-2257118","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\/FCC-Chairman-Responds-to-Kimmel-After-Equal-Time-Rule-Change.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257118","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=2257118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257120,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257118\/revisions\/2257120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}