{"id":2257374,"date":"2026-01-30T02:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2257374"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:44:32","slug":"brendan-carr-responds-to-kimmel-over-new-fcc-equal-time-rules-if-youre-fake-news-youre-not-going-to-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brendan-carr-responds-to-kimmel-over-new-fcc-equal-time-rules-if-youre-fake-news-youre-not-going-to-qualify\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Carr Responds to Kimmel Over New FCC Equal Time Rules: \u201cIf You\u2019re Fake News, You\u2019re Not Going to Qualify\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">During his monthly press conference at the agency, Federal Communications Commission chairman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1419715\/\">Brendan Carr<\/a> elaborated on the agency\u2019s \u201cequal time\u201d rule change, which could force daytime talk shows like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0123366\/\">The View<\/a> and late night shows like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046652\/\">The Tonight Show<\/a> to think carefully before inviting on candidates for political office.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an exemption for daytime talk shows and late night talk shows tracking back decades. In general, talk shows have qualified for the equal opportunities exemption as a bona fide news interview, ever since the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0042869\/\">FCC<\/a> granted an exemption to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005143\/\">Jay Leno<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3444938\/\">Tonight Show<\/a> in 1996. That is now changing, with the FCC expecting to be much more aggressive in responding to complaints from candidates that are not invited onto shows, be they from a major party, or a more obscure third party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress was clear that the FCC has a role with respect to bona fide news,&#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>During his monthly press conference at the agency, Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr elaborated on the agency\u2019s \u201cequal time\u201d rule change, which could force daytime talk shows like The View and late night shows like The Tonight Show to think carefully before inviting on candidates for political office. 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