Showing 1 - 15 of 33 articles tagged "FCC"

• Posted Tuesday 7/13/21 at 12:36PM EDT

  FCC releases 360 pages of Trump fans complaining about SNL

  The pages and pages of complaints obtained through the Freedom of Information Act "paint a mesmerizing picture of an America...

• Posted Saturday 7/03/21 at 2:20AM EDT

  FCC releases 45 pages of complaints about The Big Bang Theory since 2014

  The New York Observer recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FCC to see how many angry...

• Posted Wednesday 6/23/21 at 2:52AM EDT

  Jimmy Kimmel responds to report "President Snowflake" Trump wanted the federal government to investigate him

  A Daily Beast report Tuesday alleged that in 2019, the former president wanted to explore what the federal government, including...

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  Posted Tuesday 6/22/21 at 7:51PM EDT

  Donald Trump denies report he asked the Justice Dept. to go after SNL "and other late night losers"

  The former president issued a statement this afternoon responding to The Daily Beast report this morning that in 2019, Trump...

• Posted Tuesday 6/22/21 at 1:20PM EDT

  Report: Trump wanted his FCC and the Justice Department to go after SNL and Jimmy Kimmel

  In March 2019, the then-president had had enough of Saturday Night Live mocking him.

• Posted Saturday 5/08/21 at 3:06AM EDT

  Former FCC Chairman Newton Minow reflects on the 60th anniversary of calling television a "vast wasteland"

  On May 9, 1961, Minow, then-President John F.

• Posted Tuesday 4/20/21 at 12:24AM EDT

  FCC is asking viewers to weigh in loud commercials

  It's been 11 years since the FCC put in place the CALM (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation) Act to prevent ads...

• Posted Wednesday 3/17/21 at 2:18AM EDT

  FCC received complaints over Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s "WAP" performance at the Grammys, but not a large number

  “We can confirm that the FCC did receive consumer complaints regarding the Grammys performance,” an FCC spokesperson told TheWrap.

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  Posted Wednesday 6/10/20 at 3:00AM EDT

  Barnhart: In Praise of TV Sign-Language Interpreters

  I’m not going to miss COVID-19 or handmade sneeze guards or face-mask etiquette, but I am going to miss watching...

• Posted Friday 4/24/20 at 5:28PM EDT

  Henry Geller, the FCC counsel who helped get cigarette ads banned from TV, dies at 96

  Geller, who died on April 7, is credited with helping to save millions of lives.

• Posted Thursday 4/09/20 at 3:14PM EDT

  Justin Timberlake: FCC tried to halt SNL's "D*ck in a Box"

  Timberlake said on the Hot Ones YouTube show that the FCC got wind of The Lonely Island's 2006 Emmy-winning digital...

• Posted Thursday 2/13/20 at 4:34AM EST

  FCC received about 1,500 complaints over the Jennifer Lopez-Shakira Super Bowl halftime show

  That's fare more than the 55 complaints the FCC received over Adam Levine's shirtless performance at last year's Super Bowl.

• Posted Monday 9/09/19 at 1:49PM EDT

  Young Sheldon's alleged emergency alert misuse may lead to a $272,000 FCC fine

  The FCC has proposed fining CBS $272,000 after Young Sheldon simulated an Emergency Alert Service tone on the April 12,...

• Posted Saturday 9/07/19 at 3:40AM EDT

  5G is forcing hundreds of TV channels to change how they broadcast

  About 987 stations have been reassigned new frequencies to make way for 5G, but you'll only notice the change if...

• Posted Thursday 8/15/19 at 8:52PM EDT

  FCC fines ABC $395,000 after Jimmy Kimmel Live! simulated an emergency broadcast tone during a comedy sketch

  The FCC penalty was for an October 2018 sketch titled "Trump's Presidential Alerts – The Movie.