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The Robots Are Coming For Your Closed Captions — And That’s No Baloney, Patsy
During a recent episode of the January 6 Commission hearings — this summer's most-talked-about new show — comedy goddess...
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Posted Thursday 3/31/22 at 4:41PM EDT
Chris Rock has been mocking Jada Pinkett Smith for 25 years
The Daily Beast has unearthed a clip from an October 1997 episode of HBO's The Chris Rock Show -- two...
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Posted Wednesday 8/04/21 at 2:14AM EDT
Check out 20 FCC complaints over Big Brother
Reality Blurred's Andy Dehnart filed a Freedom of Information Act request for FCC complaints for Big Brother between 2016 and...
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Posted Tuesday 7/13/21 at 12:36PM EDT
FCC releases 360 pages of Trump fans complaining about SNL
The pages and pages of complaints obtained through the Freedom of Information Act "paint a mesmerizing picture of an America...
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Posted Saturday 7/03/21 at 2:20AM EDT
FCC releases 45 pages of complaints about The Big Bang Theory since 2014
The New York Observer recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FCC to see how many angry...
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Posted Wednesday 6/23/21 at 2:52AM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel responds to report "President Snowflake" Trump wanted the federal government to investigate him
A Daily Beast report Tuesday alleged that in 2019, the former president wanted to explore what the federal government, including...
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Donald Trump denies report he asked the Justice Dept. to go after SNL "and other late night losers"
The former president issued a statement this afternoon responding to The Daily Beast report this morning that in 2019, Trump...
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Posted Tuesday 6/22/21 at 1:20PM EDT
Report: Trump wanted his FCC and the Justice Department to go after SNL and Jimmy Kimmel
In March 2019, the then-president had had enough of Saturday Night Live mocking him.
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Posted Saturday 5/08/21 at 3:06AM EDT
Former FCC Chairman Newton Minow reflects on the 60th anniversary of calling television a "vast wasteland"
On May 9, 1961, Minow, then-President John F.
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Posted Tuesday 4/20/21 at 12:24AM EDT
FCC is asking viewers to weigh in loud commercials
It's been 11 years since the FCC put in place the CALM (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation) Act to prevent ads...
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Posted Wednesday 3/17/21 at 2:18AM EDT
FCC received complaints over Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s "WAP" performance at the Grammys, but not a large number
“We can confirm that the FCC did receive consumer complaints regarding the Grammys performance,” an FCC spokesperson told TheWrap.
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In Praise of TV Sign-Language Interpreters
I’m not going to miss COVID-19 or handmade sneeze guards or face-mask etiquette, but I am going to miss watching...
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Posted Friday 4/24/20 at 5:28PM EDT
Henry Geller, the FCC counsel who helped get cigarette ads banned from TV, dies at 96
Geller, who died on April 7, is credited with helping to save millions of lives.
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Posted Thursday 4/09/20 at 3:14PM EDT
Justin Timberlake: FCC tried to halt SNL's "D*ck in a Box"
Timberlake said on the Hot Ones YouTube show that the FCC got wind of The Lonely Island's 2006 Emmy-winning digital...
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Posted Thursday 2/13/20 at 4:34AM EST
FCC received about 1,500 complaints over the Jennifer Lopez-Shakira Super Bowl halftime show
That's fare more than the 55 complaints the FCC received over Adam Levine's shirtless performance at last year's Super Bowl.