FCC Reportedly Preparing To Revoke Disney Broadcast Licenses Over ABC’s ‘The View’

ABC’s “The View” has harbored a general opposition to President Donald Trump since his initial campaign.

And that track record is now making it hard for parent company Disney to argue that the panel talk show should be immune to the Federal Communications Commission’s equal-time regulations because it is a “news” program.

According to a new report from the New York Post, the FCC is now prepared to take action:

The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to rule that ABC’s “The View” is not a bona fide news program, a decision that would upend more than two decades of precedent and subject the Disney-owned daytime talk show to federal equal-time rules for political candidates, according to a report.

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Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the FCC is also expected to escalate a separate investigation into Disney’s broadcast television licenses, moving the matter toward an administrative hearing that could ultimately threaten ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles and other major markets.

The anticipated rulings, which people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg could come before Labor Day, would represent the most aggressive regulatory action against a major US broadcaster in decades and mark a significant victory for FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s effort to overhaul how the agency polices political programming.

Here’s a sampling of the reaction this development has received on social media:

All you have to do is watch 5 minutes of @TheView to know it's about as far from a news program that you can get.

— Donna Fanabla (@Annod2125) July 16, 2026

Get this literal toilet off the air. I understand it’s priceless leftist propaganda, but it can’t be worth the financial hemorrhage at this point.

— ellen (@Elle5439) July 16, 2026

When will the FCC make the same declaration for CNN & MSNOW?

— TheEternalAbyss (@TheEternalAbys) July 16, 2026

And Breitbart added this commentary:

Naturally, Disney will fight the FCC just as hard as it fights to queer little kids, when the only change required without a “news” designation would see The View subjected to the “equal time” rule. No one’s opinion needs to change. The harridans can all stay. But if you host a politician during campaign season, the “equal time” rule requires that The View give his opponent the same amount of airtime. So, if you host a Democrat politician during the primary season, you must host his Democrat primary opponent(s). During the general election, you must host his Republican opponent.

The reason for this is obvious and just. Multinational corporations cannot be allowed to use public property (the airwaves they use for free) to prop up preferred candidates using television exposure potentially worth millions of dollars.

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The smug groomers at Disney think they are above the law and get around this rule simply by designating The View a news program, when we all know that’s a lie.

And think about how corrupt Disney is that the very idea of hosting a politician with an outside opinion so repulses them that they are not only willing to lie, but most likely spend millions fighting this with the FCC and eventually in court.