{"id":139267,"date":"2026-04-29T04:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-regulator-to-review-disney-broadcast-licences-after-jimmy-kimmel-joke-about-melania-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:02:42","slug":"us-regulator-to-review-disney-broadcast-licences-after-jimmy-kimmel-joke-about-melania-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-regulator-to-review-disney-broadcast-licences-after-jimmy-kimmel-joke-about-melania-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"US regulator to review Disney broadcast licences after Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON DC Apr 29 \u2013 The US Federal Communications Commission is ordering an early review of Disney\u2019s television broadcast licences days after President Donald Trump called for the firing of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump had urged ABC \u2013 whose parent company is Disney \u2013 to pull Kimmel\u2019s show after the comedian joked that Melania Trump had the glow of an \u201cexpectant widow\u201d. Kimmel made the remarks days before a gunman fired shots at a gala attended by the Trumps.<\/p>\n<p>In an order on Tuesday, the FCC said it had been investigating Disney\u2019s ABC stations for possible violations, including unlawful discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>A Disney spokesperson told the BBC that ABC and its stations serve the public within FCC guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The stations \u201chave a long record of operating in full compliance with FCC rules and serving their local communities with trusted news, emergency information, and public\u2011interest programming\u201d, the company spokesperson said. \u201cOur focus remains, as always, on serving viewers in the local communities where our stations operate.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON DC Apr 29 \u2013 The US Federal Communications Commission is ordering an early review of Disney\u2019s television broadcast licences days after President Donald Trump called for the firing of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Trump had urged ABC \u2013 whose parent company is Disney \u2013 to pull Kimmel\u2019s show after the comedian joked that Melania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}