{"id":2297369,"date":"2026-02-24T12:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2297369"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:50:44","slug":"why-senator-jon-ossoffs-appearance-on-cbs-the-late-show-wont-trigger-fcc-equal-time-rule-but-james-talaricos-could-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-senator-jon-ossoffs-appearance-on-cbs-the-late-show-wont-trigger-fcc-equal-time-rule-but-james-talaricos-could-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s Appearance On CBS\u2019 \u2018The Late Show\u2019 Won\u2019t Trigger FCC Equal-Time Rule, But James Talarico\u2019s Could\u00a0Have"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Late-night has found itself in the center of another brouhaha involving the Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n

The Late Show<\/a> host Stephen Colbert<\/a> made headlines Monday when he said that CBS<\/a> lawyers had prevented him from having Texas state representative James Talarico<\/a> on last night\u2019s episode as a result of new guidance from FCC<\/a> chairman Brendan Carr<\/a> on the \u201cequal time\u201d provision, which requires networks that feature qualified political candidates on air provide time to rivals, if requested.<\/p>\n

\u201c[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network\u2019s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,\u201d Colbert<\/a> said. \u201cThen, I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on and because my network clearly doesn\u2019t want us to talk about this: let\u2019s talk about this.<\/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":"

Late-night has found itself in the center of another brouhaha involving the Federal Communications Commission. The Late Show host Stephen Colbert made headlines Monday when he said that CBS lawyers had prevented him from having Texas state representative James Talarico on last night\u2019s episode as a result of new guidance from FCC chairman Brendan Carr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2297370,"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-2297369","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\/Why-Senator-Jon-Ossoffs-Appearance-On-CBS-\u2018The-Late-Show.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297369","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=2297369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297371,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297369\/revisions\/2297371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}