The FCC is warning that daytime talk shows and late-night programs must give equal time to opposing political candidates, taking aim at a genre of TV that has long drawn President Trump's ire ... .
By changing course on a decades-old ruling, the agency again raised free speech concerns over the Trump administration’s approach to media regulation ... .
He also flatly rejected the longstanding principle that the FCC is independent of the president during a recent congressional hearing, after which the FCC immediately began deleting any reference to itself as "independent" from their website.
With the new guidance, FCC appears to take a dim view of whether late-night and daytime talk shows deserve an exemption from the “equal time” rules for stations that transmit programming over the public airwaves.