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‘The View’ Asks Its Audience for Help in Battle With F.C.C.

NYT > Business > Media · Benjamin Mullin · last updated

The daytime TV talk show is at the center of a dispute with the Federal Communications Commission over political speech.

ABC is hoping to enlist a powerful ally in its clash with the Federal Communications Commission: millions of highly engaged viewers of its daytime-TV talk show “The View.”

In an unusual move, ABC began airing direct appeals to the audience Monday during the show’s commercial breaks, asking viewers to support the program in a battle with the F.C.C. over political speech.

 

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