Will ABC sue the FCC before June 1 over the agency's efforts to regulate The View?
63% of users predicted NO — the community got this one right. 35 predictions cast.
ABC did not file a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission over its regulation of "The View" before June 1. Instead, on May 28, ABC — owned by Disney — filed its broadcast license renewal applications with the FCC "under protest," attaching a lengthy objection letter accusing the agency of "unconstitutional retaliation and coercion" and violations of the First Amendment.
The FCC had been investigating whether an appearance by a Texas Democratic politician on "The View" violated the equal-time rule, and whether the program qualified as a bona fide news broadcast exempt from that rule. Disney retained a former U.S. Solicitor General to lead the regulatory filing, a move legal experts interpreted as groundwork for a future court challenge rather than an immediate lawsuit. The filing preserves ABC's legal arguments without requiring it to sue outright at this stage.
The community correctly anticipated that a formal lawsuit would not be filed, with 63 percent voting NO. The regulatory filing indicates the dispute is likely to migrate to federal court, but had not done so by the question's deadline.