Are TV broadcasters obligated to carry the U.S. president’s comments live on their government-licensed airwaves? The current head of the FCC indicated that he believes they are. Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the FCC,

“Through this proceeding, the FCC seeks to censor Disney’s and ABC’s speech and send a chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t like at your peril,” said a filing submitted by former Republican and Democratic FCC chairs and commissioners from the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama eras.

President Donald Trump addressed the nation tonight, in what turned out to be a surprisingly needy request for people to yell at Congress to get his currently stalled Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act passed. Although he worked pretty tightly from ...

ABC News and NBC News both announced Thursday that they will carry President Donald Trump's 9 p.m. ET speech live on their respective streaming news services while limiting broadcast network coverage,

Some major TV networks showed President Donald Trump’s prime-time address live on Thursday night while others pointedly did not — a divide that highlighted Trump’s long record of lying and renewed discussion about the news media’s responsibilities.

While Brendan Carr has yet to act on the president's threats to yank broadcast licenses, Carr seems to think broadcasters have a legal obligation to please the president.

Last week, President Donald Trump said ABC and NBC should lose their broadcast licenses because they had dissed him by declining to air his speech about election security. On Wednesday, Brendan Carr,

NBC and CNN stayed away from White House speech, while Fox News, MS Now, CBS and some ABC affiliates aired it

Several major broadcasters declined to carry Trump's prime-time election security address on their main platforms.