It's Friday, September 19th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What a Day.

The show that says, good luck to Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who announced Thursday

that he will be retiring at the end of this year. Problematically, Clayton Kershaw is younger than I am.

On today's show, President Donald Trump discusses plans to designate Antifa as a major terrorist

organization, and the Senate confirms 48 of Trump's nominees all at once.

But let's start with the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, a government entity

which I never really thought I'd need to discuss at length on the show, or ever, unless we're

referencing the rapper Eminem. But that was then. This is now. After FCC chairman, Brendan Carr,

told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday that Jimmy Kimmel, host of the late-night ABC talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, should face consequences from Disney for his comments regarding conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murder.

After Carr made his comments, Next Star, the largest owner of television stations in the country, which just so happens to have a merger pending that would require FCC approval,

preempted Kimmel's show.

Sinclair, the second largest owner of television stations, followed.

Cut to Disney announcing Wednesday night that Kimmel's show had been pulled indefinitely.

This is a practice known as jaw-boning, when the government uses informal pressure to sway

the decisions of private

entities. Nextar says the FCC chair's comments had nothing to do with its decision. I say,

sure. And leave it to Trump to say the somewhat quiet part really, really loudly.

When you have a network, then you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump.

That's all they do.

If you go back, I guess they haven't had a conservative more than years or something.

Somebody said, but when you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump.

They're licensed.

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