Jimmy Kimmel, Don't Apologize!
The Don Lemon Show
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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Matt Bellany, host of the town podcast and founding editor of Puck News. How are you, sir? |
| 0:06.9 | Doing great. How are you? I'm doing very well. I'm going to talk to you about everything that |
| 0:12.0 | happened this weekend. I know that you were in the room, but let's get, can we get to some breaking |
| 0:15.0 | news first? Because this is reporting is coming from semifore, and it's saying the Federal Communications Commission is moving |
| 0:24.6 | toward a review of Disney's broadcast license, |
| 0:27.6 | according to people familiar with the matter, |
| 0:29.6 | a maneuver that would up the pressure on ABC owner |
| 0:32.6 | to face fear scrutiny from the administration. |
| 0:34.6 | But then if we look at the variety article that is also here, |
| 0:37.9 | it says, Trump FCC preparing review of ABC broadcast license in wake of Jimmy Kimmel's |
| 0:42.4 | Melania joke, according to a report. They're going to say it's not about the joke, that it's |
| 0:48.3 | about, you know, not getting rid of their DEI practices and all of that. But what is going on here, |
| 0:52.9 | Matt? Well, very clearly, the administration has decided that this is a good war for them. |
| 1:00.5 | Trump versus the media is a war that they believe they win on, meaning they win in the |
| 1:06.9 | court of public opinion. Whether the FCC can actually look at each individual license, remember, Disney only owns |
| 1:15.5 | about eight broadcast licenses. |
| 1:18.8 | And these are individual station licenses in particular markets. |
| 1:23.2 | It happened to be the bigger markets because Disney wants to own the licenses in those bigger markets like |
| 1:28.7 | New York and L.A., but they say they're going to go after and review these licenses individually |
| 1:34.8 | as they come up. Doesn't seem like there is much else besides these two quasi-issues, whether they have DEI practices that discriminate, |
| 1:49.3 | and whether they are using their broadcast licenses in the, quote, public interest by allowing a comedian to make jokes about the president, |
| 1:57.2 | something that has happened literally since the beginning of the FCC and the |
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