How the FCC Suspended CBS and Stephen Colbert

In general, the FCC’s vague and often unenforced rules are not the business of late-night talk shows. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr seems determined to change that; It wasn’t long after causing a brief commotion Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the airApparently his vague threats were enough to convince CBS of this Tell Stephen Colbert not to air an interview. Which of course became a whole thing.

on This episode of vertcast (Which we recorded and posted a day early because of the news and because Nilay has time off to take), David and Nilay open the show with a very large Brendan Carr puppet bit. We talk through the Colbert/CBS schedule back and forth, and again try to explain How the equal time rule actually worksand wonders exactly how far Carr’s intimidating influence will be allowed to go.

If you want to learn more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first in FCC news:

And in the lightning round: