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Trump’s growing threats to strip broadcast licenses send chills across industry | CNN Business

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58% Informative

Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked the government's licensing of broadcast TV airwaves.

He has said on at least 15 occasions that certain licenses should be revoked.

His anti-broadcasting broadsides against CBS , ABC , NBC , and even Fox are almost always in reaction to interview questions he dislikes or programming he detests.

Trump ’s threats against CBS have grown so insistent that some TV industry executives have speculated that they could be vulnerable to retaliation if Trump returns to power.

Trump has threatened to place the FCC back under presidential authority.

The FCC is currently controlled by Democrats .

First Amendment attorney Ted Boutrous , who represented CNN in a 2018 lawsuit against Trump , said that Trump ’s comments should be taken seriously.

The agency currently operates independently with both Democratic and Republican commissioners.

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semi-formal

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English

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51

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