{"id":2286692,"date":"2026-02-18T01:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2286692"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:10:10","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-fcc-rule-at-the-center-of-trump-administration-efforts-to-crack-down-on-stephen-colbert-and-other-late-night-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-to-know-about-the-fcc-rule-at-the-center-of-trump-administration-efforts-to-crack-down-on-stephen-colbert-and-other-late-night-hosts\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Know About The FCC Rule At The Center Of Trump Administration Efforts To Crack Down On Stephen Colbert And Other Late-Night Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Stephen Colbert<\/a> announced that CBS<\/a> restricted him from airing an interview with a Democratic candidate, it set off a range of reactions: Some argued that it reflected Trump\u2019s efforts to censor late-night content; others that it was merely enforcement of a law on the books.<\/p>\n

Even Colbert<\/a> and CBS appear to have different versions of just what happened, leading to the Late Show host shifting a planned interview with Texas State<\/a> Rep. James Talarico<\/a> from broadcast to YouTube<\/a>. Talarico is among the candidates running for U.S. Senate in the Lone Star state.<\/p>\n

At the center of the flare up is the FCC<\/a>\u2019s Equal Opportunities Rule, more commonly referred to as the Equal Time Rule. It requires that when broadcasters feature a legally qualified political candidate on their airwaves, they have to provide time to rivals if it is requested. In other words, it doesn\u2019t restrict…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

When Stephen Colbert announced that CBS restricted him from airing an interview with a Democratic candidate, it set off a range of reactions: Some argued that it reflected Trump\u2019s efforts to censor late-night content; others that it was merely enforcement of a law on the books. Even Colbert and CBS appear to have different versions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2286693,"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-2286692","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\/02\/What-To-Know-About-The-FCC-Rule-At-The-Center.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286692","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=2286692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286694,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286692\/revisions\/2286694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}