A coalition of prominent conservative groups has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny license renewal requests for eight local television stations owned and operated by ABC.
The legal challenges accuse the network of political, racial, and sexual bias, as well as supporting the Chinese Communist Party.
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The Center for American Rights filed a petition last Monday, asserting that the stations were not operating in the public interest due to consistent partisan bias.
“ABC ignores long-standing Commission precedents and principles protecting the integrity of the news,” the group wrote.
The organization further argued that the network engages in discrimination and fails to respect agency regulations.
“ABC engages in explicit racial and gender discrimination. ABC cozies up to the Communist Chinese Party and airbrushes over religious and ethnic cleansing.
ABC fails to respect this Commission’s rules,” the petition stated.
The complaint requested that the FCC deny the requests and schedule a formal hearing to review the network’s public interest qualifications.
The Media Research Center also submitted a filing targeting stations in major markets, including New York City and Los Angeles, over alleged efforts to influence national elections.
The watchdog group claimed that ABC used public spectrum to suppress crucial news stories and minimize political violence.
“ABC has used public spectrum to suppress news coverage of the most critical stories of our day; to engage in electioneering and relentless political bias; to excuse, minimize, and even justify the epidemic of political violence; and to peddle misinformation and defamation,” the filing said.
