{"id":247890,"date":"2026-06-23T02:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-view-uses-late-host-barbara-walters-to-urge-fans-to-fight-back-over-threat-of-fcc-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:19:02","slug":"the-view-uses-late-host-barbara-walters-to-urge-fans-to-fight-back-over-threat-of-fcc-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-view-uses-late-host-barbara-walters-to-urge-fans-to-fight-back-over-threat-of-fcc-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The View\u2019 Uses Late Host Barbara Walters to Urge Fans to Fight Back Over Threat of FCC Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/the-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The View<\/em><\/a> invoked its late creator and cohost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/barbara-walters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Barbara Walters<\/strong><\/a> to fight back against threats from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman <strong>Brendan Carr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had this idea for a show,\u201d Walters explains in archival footage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lopjkfcvhk0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used in an ad<\/a> released by <em>The View<\/em> on Monday, June 22. \u201cDifferent women, different points of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Classic footage of Walters on <em>The View<\/em> transitions into modern clips of hosts <strong>Joy Behar<\/strong>, <strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong>, <strong>Sunny Hostin<\/strong>, <strong>Sara Haines<\/strong>, <strong>Ana Navarro<\/strong> and <strong>Alyssa Farah Griffin<\/strong> posing on the set of the ABC daytime show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The View<\/em> has welcomed your favorite guests and covered the issues you care about for nearly 30 years,\u201d a narrator tells viewers. \u201cNow, the FCC wants to control who is allowed to appear on the show. Viewers, use your voice!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"wpcom-iframe-9db819633e21623fe402ec6b9f034590\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.usmagazine.com\/protected-iframe\/9db819633e21623fe402ec6b9f034590\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"wpcom-protected-iframe\"><br \/>\n\t\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The show encourages fans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/filings\/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=26-124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submit an official comment<\/a> to the FCC in defense of <em>The View<\/em> before a July 6 deadline.<\/p>\n<p><em>The View<\/em> has been a frequent target of Carr, 47, and President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s administration in recent years. Carr has alleged that <em>The View<\/em> violates the FCC\u2019s \u201cEqual Time\u201d rule by not giving conservative guests and points of view equal airtime to liberal views and guests.<\/p>\n<p><em>The View<\/em> has traditionally been classified as a \u201cbona fide news\u201d show, rather than entertainment, which has protected it from interference over \u201cequal time\u201d considerations.<\/p>\n<p>However, Carr announced during a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March that the FCC was investigating <em>The View<\/em> over alleged \u201cequal time\u201d violations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4359200\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Brendan Carr.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou have Disney out there complaining that <em>The View<\/em>, and Whoopi Goldberg, is a \u2018bonafide news program\u2019 and therefore exempt from the \u2018equal time\u2019 rule,\u201d he complained. \u201cThe FCC has launched an enforcement investigation into <em>The View<\/em> for failing to comply with the \u2018equal time\u2019 provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disney-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/document\/10507899614175\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC fired back<\/a> over the FCC\u2019s attempts at intervention in May with a formal petition, which warned that the government agency was \u201cthreaten[ing] to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to <em>The View<\/em> and more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome may dislike certain \u2014 or even most \u2014 of the viewpoints expressed on <em>The View<\/em> or similar shows. 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