Anna Gomez

It's a big production for the broadcasters to file for renewal and to show that they are, in fact, serving their local communities and complying with all the FCC's rules.

In this case, Disney's licenses were not coming up for renewal until the earliest, 2028, and the latest, I think, was 2031 or 2032.

But the point is, the commission basically, out of the blue, issued an order that said, no, we're going to call up your licenses for renewal.

You have 30 days to seek renewal of all eight of your licenses.

The reason this is so egregious is because it's clear that what the FCC is doing is it is retaliating against ABC because it is refusing to capitulate at this point with this administration's demands that it fire Jimmy Kimmel, that it get rid of The View, that it, you know, basically just report things in a way that this administration wants it to be reported.

They are going after the network, which we do not have any authority over, by going after their eight broadcast license stations.

There are tons of affiliates all over the country, but they're not all owned.

Only eight are actually owned by Disney itself.

Not only that, but this pretext that the reason why they are doing so is because there's been an investigation into Disney's diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, and that Disney somehow hasn't sufficiently complied with the many demands that this commission has placed

has given it for more and more documents, even though when Disney very much clearly showed us, they have sent tens of thousands of documents in response to the FCC's enforcement process.

It's just so clearly pretextual.

It's just harassment.

You know, there's a whole process that has to happen.

So the FCC issues its order.

Disney filed its response.

Now FCC put that out for comment and is seeking petitions to deny.

And so what's going to happen is we're going to have some partisan organizations that already have come in

and said, oh yeah, you know, you absolutely should not renew these licenses because Disney's such a bad actor with diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

And then there's a chance to respond to that.

If the commission decides to take adverse action, then there's further processes because taking away a broadcaster's license is taking away their lifeblood.