Brendan Carr
@BrendanCarrFCC
This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule.
The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct - a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election.
Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.
BigTex wrote:October 1, 2024
SNL bans Harris and Trump cameos this year not to run afoul of election laws
Saturday Night Live premiered its 50th season over the weekend, but don’t expect any presidential candidates to make any cameos on the show this election season.
“You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions,” executive producer Lorne Michaels told The Hollywood Reporter. “You can’t have the main candidates without having all the candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states and that becomes really complicated.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/snl ... 52259.html
That was a month ago. A lot could have changed. I doubt they would risk FCC fines. Do you think Trump would have gone on if they asked him?
Sangersteve wrote:That was a month ago. A lot could have changed. I doubt they would risk FCC fines. Do you think Trump would have gone on if they asked him?
What difference does it make when Lorne Michaels made the statement?
Do you really think SNL cares if NBC has to pay a fine?
Would Trump have appeared if asked? Probably, he's done the show before.
If you're done making excuses ask yourself this.
If NBC had extended an invitation to Trump and had a receipt in hand to prove they asked and Trump declined, wouldn't that already have been presented as evidence they did everything by the book?
SNL and NBC played fast and loose with the rules, they got caught.
Yet nothing will happen to NBC
GFB wrote:Trump was not asked to be on the show.
Saturday Night Live's effort to give Kamala Harris some free publicity backfired spectacularly when NBC was forced to provide Donald Trump equal airtime.
On Sunday, NBC filed an “Equal Time” notice with the FCC saying the Democratic candidate for President “appeared without charge on NBC's Saturday Night Live…for a total period of…one minute and 30 seconds.”
NBC’s filing came after Carr accused the network of structuring Harris’ appearance in a way that evades federal law requiring broadcasters to offer, “comparable time and placement to all legally qualified candidates when the Equal Time rule is triggered.”
Sangersteve wrote:NBC seems to think they needed to give him some time
At least that’s what they told the FCCOn Sunday, NBC filed an “Equal Time” notice with the FCC saying the Democratic candidate for President “appeared without charge on NBC's Saturday Night Live…for a total period of…one minute and 30 seconds.”
NBC’s filing came after Carr accused the network of structuring Harris’ appearance in a way that evades federal law requiring broadcasters to offer, “comparable time and placement to all legally qualified candidates when the Equal Time rule is triggered.”
rusty wrote:Sangersteve wrote:NBC seems to think they needed to give him some time
At least that’s what they told the FCCOn Sunday, NBC filed an “Equal Time” notice with the FCC saying the Democratic candidate for President “appeared without charge on NBC's Saturday Night Live…for a total period of…one minute and 30 seconds.”
NBC’s filing came after Carr accused the network of structuring Harris’ appearance in a way that evades federal law requiring broadcasters to offer, “comparable time and placement to all legally qualified candidates when the Equal Time rule is triggered.”
They filed an equal time notice, which is standard, but what makes you think that they needed to do this? Just because they did it doesn’t mean they needed to.
But I understand. They already have people pissing and moaning about equal time, even though the rule wasn’t violated.
It’s a good way to shut those people up.
Sangersteve wrote:rusty wrote:Sangersteve wrote:NBC seems to think they needed to give him some time
At least that’s what they told the FCC
They filed an equal time notice, which is standard, but what makes you think that they needed to do this? Just because they did it doesn’t mean they needed to.
But I understand. They already have people pissing and moaning about equal time, even though the rule wasn’t violated.
It’s a good way to shut those people up.
I try to use common sense
FCC says NBC you messed up
NBC says no we didn’t
Then NBC says out of the kindness of our corporate heart we’re going to donate $1.7 million to the guy we’ve been calling Hitler and a nazi for years
That doesn’t make common sense
What makes common sense is that the lawyers said look guys we might lose to the rules and it could cost us a ton. So make this offer and hope Trump says ok.
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