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Stephen Colbert addresses FCC controversy related to unaired interview with a Texas Senate candidate
NBC News· 2026-02-18 17:14
But here's where I do want to tell the lawyers how to do their jobs. They know damn well that every word of my script last night was approved by CBS's lawyers who for the record approve every script that goes on the air, whether it's about equal time or this image of frogs having sex. On Monday, Coar claimed the network blocked his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Terico from airing on TV out of fear of retaliation from the Federal Communications Commission.Then on Tuesday, CBS released a stateme ...
Stephen Colbert addresses FCC controversy over Texas Democrat interview
NBC News· 2026-02-18 15:05
With growing tensions behind the scenes and on the air at CBS, late night Late Show host Steven Colbear called out his own network for the second night in a row. Here's the issue. On Monday, Colbear claimed the network blocked his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Terico from airing on TV out of fear of retaliation from the Federal Communications Commission.Then on Tuesday, CBS released a statement saying the show was not prohibited from airing the interview, but that network lawyers provided guid ...
Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air interview with Texas Democrat out of fear of FCC
NBC News· 2026-02-18 03:13
You know, you know who is not one of my guests tonight. That's Texas State Representative James Talerico. He he was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on.All right. The interview with the Senate candidate James Talerico was posted on YouTube and has gotten more than two m ...