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[00:00:00] location in the Zadar region, weapons were
[00:00:03] found during a search of the house of
[00:00:06] two arrested individuals. The police conducted a criminal investigation
[00:00:10] of three Croatian citizens of Serbian nationality and one
[00:00:14] Polish woman, RTL reports. In connection with these
[00:00:17] allegations, N1 sent an inquiry to the Ministry of Interior.
[00:00:20] Two days ago, the police located and arrested four people
[00:00:24] in a car with Zadar license plates. The police
[00:00:27] had previously received a tip from citizens about a fire burning by the roadside
[00:00:30] in the wider Benkovac area. The criminal investigation
[00:00:33] concluded that all four individuals, following a prior
[00:00:36] plan and mutual agreement, caused
[00:00:40] fires on August 14 and 15 at a total
[00:00:44] of 10 locations in Zadar and the wider Zadar
[00:00:48] County, Croatian police stated
[00:00:52] in a statement. And fires are burning in
[00:00:55] other parts of Europe. In Belgium, the largest
[00:00:59] fire in the country's history is raging. In Wales,
[00:01:03] the army also joined the firefighting efforts.
[00:01:07] Rain in eastern Belgium slightly eased
[00:01:10] the firefighting, but more than 3,000
[00:01:14] hectares of the nature reserve are still engulfed
[00:01:17] in flames. It is a peatland
[00:01:19] context of area rich in organic material that forms when plant
[00:01:22] remains accumulate for thousands of years and only partially
[00:01:26] decompose in wet soil.
[00:01:30] Beneath us is not even stone or sand, it's all flammable material,
[00:01:35] The water level of the Danube near Prahovo which is why it can remain hot for days, even weeks. That's why we'll
[00:01:38] have to stay here for a long time to keep everything
[00:01:41] under control. Experts say that the restoration
[00:01:45] of the reserve will take decades, even
[00:01:47] centuries. Officials say this is the biggest
[00:01:51] ecological catastrophe in the country. The fire
[00:01:54] threatened to cross into German territory, but firefighters
[00:01:57] have contained it for now.
[00:02:00] The situation is stable. We managed to keep under control
[00:02:04] the areas we tried to protect overnight, and
[00:02:07] the weather conditions were somewhat in our favor.
[00:02:11] We are currently soaking the surrounding areas with water and trying
[00:02:14] to further calm the situation.
[00:02:19] Kimmel unfolded, the role of A record number of fires are in Britain, in South Wales, the army is participating
[00:02:22] in firefighting. In central England, fire destroyed at least
[00:02:26] 20 houses. In Greece, there were casualties.
[00:02:30] People died on the island of Salamis, west of
[00:02:33] Athens. In that area, a very strong wind is blowing
[00:02:36] with gusts reaching seven degrees on the Beaufort scale. This
[00:02:40] contributed to the fire rapidly escalating to dangerous
[00:02:44] proportions and spreading to the nearest
[00:02:47] settlements in just seven minutes. There are no fire breaks,
[00:02:50] no clearly defined evacuation routes, no
[00:02:53] prevention whatsoever. The whole of Europe is affected by fires.
[00:02:57] European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says
[00:03:01] that fires are also raging in Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece,
[00:03:04] Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Serbia, and claims
[00:03:07] that European solidarity is at work, meaning
[00:03:11] that joint efforts are being made everywhere to extinguish
[00:03:14] the fires. According to data from the European Forest Fire Information
[00:03:18] System, in 2026, approximately 576,000
[00:03:22] hectares, or about
[00:03:24] 5,760 square kilometers of land
[00:03:28] burned in Europe. An area almost
[00:03:32] 2.5 times larger
[00:03:34] really sort of past time that a lot of than Luxembourg. Dušan Mlađenović,
[00:03:36] N1.
[00:03:39] And by the end of the news, a story about the Danube
[00:03:42] and its historic
[00:03:44] minimum.
[00:03:47] The Danube's water level has never been lower, exposing vessels
[00:03:51] from World War
[00:03:53] II.
[00:03:58] Before that, about a change in ownership at Adria News
[00:04:02] Network.
[00:04:04] The owner of Alpak Capital, Pedro Varga Santos
[00:04:08] David, was officially registered today as the director
[00:04:11] of all independent media members of the United Group
[00:04:14] in Serbia. As can be seen in
[00:04:17] responses to this from both sides of the Business Registers Agency, decisions on the appointment
[00:04:20] of Alpak Capital's owner were adopted today,
[00:04:23] August 17th. The director of the portal
[00:04:26] and Nova newspaper Mihajlo Jovićević,
[00:04:30] as well as Nedeljnik Radar,
[00:04:32] how up front the head of then Aleksandra Mitić, director of Dan Graf, which is the publisher
[00:04:35] of Danas, as well as Brent Sadler from the position
[00:04:38] of director of Adria News, of which N1 is a part, were dismissed.
[00:04:42] Brent Sadler was dismissed from the position of director of Adria News
[00:04:46] Nova S, where he was recently appointed.
[00:04:49] Janez Živko was also dismissed, who was also
[00:04:52] the director of Nova S television. Regarding this
[00:04:55] news, we note that the change of ownership will not
[00:04:58] affect the editorial policy of N1 television
[00:05:02] or the way our editorial team makes editorial
[00:05:05] decisions. The editorial team retains full responsibility
[00:05:09] for the selection of topics, the manner of reporting and
[00:05:12] editorial decisions in the public interest. The trade unions
[00:05:16] of N1 television, Forbes Serbia, Nova.rs
[00:05:19] portal, Nedeljnik Radar, condemn the way
[00:05:22] Alpak Capital took over the media within Adria
[00:05:26] News Network, because it was done during the summer vacation
[00:05:29] without any notification to employees, which caused
[00:05:33] concern, the trade unions state. From the
[00:05:36] trade unions' statement, they say they fear that things will not
[00:05:40] stop there and that there could be dismissals
[00:05:43] of editors in an attempt to align the remaining independent
[00:05:47] professional media with the wishes of the current
[00:05:50] regime. They state that the previous actions of the ANN
[00:05:53] management do not inspire confidence that these are good
[00:05:57] intentions. Therefore, they demand an urgent meeting
[00:06:01] with representatives of representative
[00:06:04] trade unions and written guarantees that there will be no interference
[00:06:07] in the editorial policy and the positions of editors and journalists.
[00:06:11] Farmers
[00:06:18] this year are dissatisfied with the purchase price of sunflower,
[00:06:21] which is 20 dinars lower than last year,
[00:06:25] and this, they say, takes away all their
[00:06:28] profit. The Minister of Agriculture Dragan Glamočić says that
[00:06:32] the harvest has practically just begun, that the market
[00:06:36] is still forming and that the final price will be formed
[00:06:40] in a month. "If I had a bigger hand,
[00:06:42] I would take more." It seems that this
[00:06:45] year, the market is taking away the profit for sunflower
[00:06:49] from domestic farmers, because they were offered a purchase price
[00:06:53] of 40 dinars per kilogram. From that price
[00:06:56] of sunflower, 55 dinars, and we get about
[00:06:59] 35%, and 65% goes again
[00:07:02] to the oil mill. If 65% is not enough for them, people,
[00:07:06] I don't know what it is. Usurers got rich with
[00:07:09] 2-3% interest. They explain that it is not clear
[00:07:13] why the price is lower when sunflower yielded much less this year,
[00:07:16] because the drought caused it to ripen
[00:07:19] earlier and reduce yields. We don't see any reason to
[00:07:23] reduce the price of sunflower by 15 to 20 dinars, that's literally our profit,
[00:07:27] why is someone constantly taking our profit? It's not just with sunflower,
[00:07:31] Tornjanski asks why domestic wheat, corn, milk are constantly
[00:07:35] the cheapest, while the price of products in stores is rising, except
[00:07:39] that someone sat down and agreed how much they would pay us and
[00:07:42] the state simply kept silent and did not react. The Minister
[00:07:46] of Agriculture Dragan Glamočić assessed that there is room
[00:07:49] for the price of sunflower to rise, but stated that he does not
[00:07:53] want the state to determine purchase prices, but that the role of the ministry
[00:07:56] is to enable dialogue between market participants and provide
[00:08:00] information on trends in foreign markets. The state should
[00:08:03] protect agricultural producers from buyers and
[00:08:07] monopolists, but the state simply does not react to that.
[00:08:11] Some sunflower producers still went to negotiate with the minister, say
[00:08:15] N1 interlocutors. Those are his people, all those people together
[00:08:19] don't have 20 hectares of sunflower or however much. Due to the reduced purchase
[00:08:23] price, farmers from Zaradac held a protest this week. The harvest
[00:08:26] cannot wait, they say they are mostly all in the field and that
[00:08:30] after that, they will hold a meeting of several associations to agree
[00:08:34] on their further activities and possibly radicalization. The price
[00:08:38] in the region is higher everywhere than here. Only here is it
[00:08:41] the cheapest. No one. I don't know why, and it repeats
[00:08:44] every year, every year we go in circles. According to Minister
[00:08:48] Glamočić, the final price of sunflower will be formed in a month
[00:08:51] and will be influenced, among other things, by market trends
[00:08:55] and developments in Ukraine and Russia.
[00:08:59] Ana Opačić, N1,
[00:09:00] Belgrade.
[00:09:03] Workers from the Zrenjanin Style company for
[00:09:06] professional rehabilitation and employment of people with
[00:09:09] disabilities say that they have been living
[00:09:13] without salaries for months. They state that they are owed 11
[00:09:16] salaries, that they have no health insurance, and that
[00:09:20] a solution is not
[00:09:21] in sight.
[00:09:24] "Our agony has lasted for more than a year," say the workers from Zrenjanin
[00:09:27] Style. For the 23 employees in this
[00:09:31] state-owned company, in the last 15 months, only four
[00:09:34] salaries have been paid. Most are people with disabilities and without
[00:09:38] regular income, they say, they barely provide for the most basic needs.
[00:09:42] "There are those who are helped by a sister, relatives and
[00:09:45] so on, those of us who
[00:09:49] don't have and can't, as disabled people,
[00:09:53] work privately, we have families, we manage,
[00:09:56] everyone manages as best they can, because for every three or four
[00:10:00] places, as our colleague said, we get one
[00:10:03] salary. Uh, should anyone live like that,
[00:10:07] not just us disabled people, but anyone, should they
[00:10:10] live like that? They asked the president and the government
[00:10:13] and the relevant ministries for help. At the last meeting
[00:10:16] in the Ministry of Labour, they were told
[00:10:20] that they could receive severance pay by the end of the year. At the moment we
[00:10:24] were returning. But they gave us hope that it would somehow
[00:10:27] this would move faster
[00:10:30] to be resolved, but nothing came of it, it only
[00:10:34] got worse. Now this year we don't have health cards
[00:10:37] or the salaries we earned. Despite everything, production has not stopped,
[00:10:41] those who have been here for more than three
[00:10:45] decades are still working on the machines. The company with
[00:10:47] people who have over 30
[00:10:51] years of work experience are no longer suitable for the labor market
[00:10:55] and all have health problems. It is precisely about the importance
[00:10:58] of work for people with disabilities that the Minister of Labor spoke during
[00:11:02] a recent visit to the Novitas company in Šabac. And
[00:11:06] we can imagine how much it means to them when they participate in work
[00:11:09] activities, when they earn their own money, when they have work
[00:11:13] habits and responsibilities and when they can contribute to their
[00:11:17] families. She was there because, according to her,
[00:11:20] disabled people are a priority, President Vučić and everyone from
[00:11:24] the government say that everywhere. "But they only say that for the media.
[00:11:28] In real life, no one, even though we called them countless times
[00:11:31] to come, to see our condition, to see how these
[00:11:35] workers live, without salaries for so many months. There is work,
[00:11:38] but no pay. The management previously justified unpaid salaries
[00:11:42] by a lack of work, a blocked account, and problems with
[00:11:45] subsidies, but claimed that it now has contracted
[00:11:49] work. We are waiting for an answer to the question of why
[00:11:53] salaries are still late." N1,
[00:11:55] Zrenjanin.
[00:12:00] is at a historic low. The Iron Gate 2 hydropower
[00:12:03] plant is operating at reduced capacity. River traffic has been stopped,
[00:12:07] and instead of ships sailing, attention is drawn to those that have been
[00:12:11] underwater for 82 years, and are now
[00:12:14] visible. Of the German fleet sunk more than 80
[00:12:18] years ago, more than 20 ships are near Prahovo.
[00:12:21] Our reporter Gordana Bjeletić also visited
[00:12:25] that location. The port of Prahovo has
[00:12:28] stopped, everything has stopped, everything has stopped, ships
[00:12:32] are anchored, there is no navigation, there is nothing, there is no,
[00:12:35] because the water level of the Danube has fallen. When the water level
[00:12:39] of the Danube is not this low, the water is approximately
[00:12:43] up to here, almost to the road. Now that the
[00:12:47] water level has dropped, history has surfaced. This wonder
[00:12:51] that appeared, it has never been here before. Many people come, they are interested,
[00:12:54] this is truly an attraction for our region
[00:12:58] here. Below, we will pass by ships that have never
[00:13:01] appeared before. These are some small ships. This is presumed to be
[00:13:05] a hospital ship, this is presumed to be the third
[00:13:08] ship, there is still a possibility of three ships below. As the German
[00:13:12] fleet retreated, they sank them so that the Russian
[00:13:15] army would not reach them. The ships were seen
[00:13:19] before, but never this much. This is the first time
[00:13:22] it has been seen in 82 years. Here it is. That's a top-rock
[00:13:26] aircraft light, the tubes are visible, here they are, here they are,
[00:13:30] there are, here they are, laid
[00:13:34] down, here are the mines, three and four,
[00:13:37] seven and three, 10 new mines
[00:13:41] that can be seen near the hospital ship, the largest one visible now,
[00:13:45] but they say there are bigger ones underwater. Now we go between
[00:13:49] here, here it is, here, here it is, here
[00:13:52] it is. What is that? A ship,
[00:13:58] a ship, a ship, now we are above the ship,
[00:14:01] actually, now we also took off the propeller, but I'm happy
[00:14:05] I have another propeller so I put the propeller in reserve,
[00:14:08] I knew about the situation so that we wouldn't get stuck. There are some
[00:14:12] passengers who are scared, it wouldn't be anything
[00:14:14] bad, we would just paddle a little and get some
[00:14:17] exercise.
[00:14:20] Fear is justified and caution is needed, not because of the ships, but because of what
[00:14:23] is in them: unexploded ordnance that is still
[00:14:27] underwater. According to a project funded by the European Union,
[00:14:30] which runs from 2023 to 2028, it is planned
[00:14:34] that the ships will be removed from the Danube. A small
[00:14:37] number of them have been removed, they plan to
[00:14:40] remove them. They tried to remove them in '47, but
[00:14:43] failed. They tried in '80, where 10
[00:14:47] people died. In '24,
[00:14:51] a small amount was removed, but it stopped in '24.
[00:14:55] According to official data, of the German fleet sunk in 1944,
[00:14:58] three ships were removed, four sunk deeper.
[00:15:01] Here near Prahovo, about twenty, but
[00:15:04] it is assumed that from here to the Black Sea,
[00:15:08] between one and two hundred ships of the German fleet were sunk.
[00:15:11] The port authority warns that ships that do sail
[00:15:15] do so at their own risk. Explosions
[00:15:18] are possible, so now only swans
[00:15:22] sail on the Danube near Prahovo. Gordana Bjeletić, N1, Prahovo.
[00:15:27] Meteorologists say that a cool-down is coming, but only for
[00:15:30] a short time, so let's see what else, says our Sara
[00:15:34] Botić. Tonight there will be a change in weather, first in the north
[00:15:37] overnight and in most of Serbia, with rain and thunderstorms,
[00:15:41] a significant cool-down is coming. A cold front
[00:15:45] is coming to our area, which will bring clouds and
[00:15:48] precipitation. After the front passes, the weather will stabilize
[00:15:51] and temperatures will rise again. On Tuesday,
[00:15:55] the weather will be changeable, cloudy and cooler, mostly dry
[00:15:58] with sunny intervals in the north and west of
[00:16:01] Serbia. In other parts, there may still be rain
[00:16:05] and local thunderstorms in the morning
[00:16:07] and forenoon. Tomorrow, a moderate, sometimes strong
[00:16:11] northwest wind will blow. The minimum temperature
[00:16:14] will be from 15 to 19 degrees, and the maximum
[00:16:18] temperature tomorrow will be pleasant, from 26 to
[00:16:20] 31 degrees. Already from Wednesday, it will be sunny
[00:16:24] and warmer again, and a rise in temperature
[00:16:27] is expected. Despite the precipitation expected tonight,
[00:16:30] drought will return in the coming days. The problem of precipitation deficit
[00:16:34] remains, and the risk of wildfires in the open is still increased.
[00:16:38] Temperatures will be up to 39
[00:16:40] degrees again from Thursday.
[00:16:43] You have been watching the news, and all the news and stories
[00:16:47] from our reporters can be followed on our portal N1info.RS
[00:16:50] and our social media accounts. New
[00:16:53] information in our 10 o'clock news.
[00:16:56] Stay with
[00:16:57] N1.
[00:17:22] Welcome to the whole story. I'm Anderson Cooper. Jimmy Kimmel's suspension from
[00:17:26] ABC sparked immediate and heated debate over the First
[00:17:29] Amendment and censorship. To be clear,
[00:17:32] television networks are legally allowed to suspend or cancel any shows
[00:17:36] they want, and they have a long history of doing so when it comes to controversies
[00:17:39] involving their stars or cast members. But Kimmel's
[00:17:43] suspension was different because it involved a mix of politics, the
[00:17:46] president, and the power of his administration when it comes to its
[00:17:49] critics. In this next hour, CNN's Jake Tapper walks us
[00:17:53] through how the decision to suspend
[00:17:57] the FCC, ABC's affiliate stations, and its
[00:18:00] parent company Disney. And he speaks to leading First Amendment
[00:18:04] scholars about the direction we're heading when it comes to free speech.
[00:18:18] We have breaking news here at CNN. Trump ally and the founder of Turning
[00:18:22] Point USA, Charlie Kirk, was shot at an event on
[00:18:25] a college campus in Utah.
[00:18:29] Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, only 31 years
[00:18:32] old, has been killed after being shot in the neck in an
[00:18:36] apparent assassination. From Utah to Arizona, New York, and
[00:18:40] D.C., mourners have been gathering at
[00:18:42] vigils.
[00:18:45] What does the Charlie Kirk murder say,
[00:18:49] if anything, about the state of free speech in America and the state
[00:18:52] of free speech on college campuses? It's a scary moment
[00:18:56] for those of us who have always explained that speech is not violence. Speech
[00:18:59] is the best cure for violence ever invented. So a lot of us were
[00:19:03] just genuinely horrified, even those of us who are critical of Charlie for any number of
[00:19:06] reasons, that someone should get killed for going to argue with
[00:19:10] students on campus.
[00:19:14] The attack on Charlie Kirk came amidst years of concerns over
[00:19:18] suppressed speech on college campuses. Many see his
[00:19:21] tragic killing as a watershed moment, and it pushed
[00:19:24] beyond universities. People from all walks of life,
[00:19:28] politicians, celebrities, expressed their sadness,
[00:19:31] including this sentiment from Jimmy Kimmel on September 11th,
[00:19:35] the day after Kirk's horrific murder. Like the rest of the
[00:19:38] country, we're still trying to wrap our heads around the senseless
[00:19:41] murder of the popular podcaster and conservative
[00:19:44] activist Charlie Kirk yesterday, whose death has amplified our
[00:19:48] anger, our differences, and I've seen a lot of
[00:19:51] extraordinarily vile
[00:19:54] the political spectrum. Some people are cheering this, which is
[00:19:58] something I won't ever understand. The fallout from
[00:20:01] Charlie Kirk's killing has spread to the workplace. These companies and
[00:20:05] organizations have reported either terminated or suspending employees for posts
[00:20:09] about Kirk. I went on social media and I saw a
[00:20:12] video of a student in Texas
[00:20:15] making fun of Charlie Kirk being murdered. I didn't
[00:20:19] like it. I could see why people would be offended by it. Within the day, I believe,
[00:20:23] the governor of Texas was weighing in on
[00:20:27] this student's speech, yeah, and saying he had
[00:20:30] been expelled. Yeah, there was so
[00:20:34] much emotional opportunity to go after a political enemy
[00:20:38] that they just kind of leapt on it. Many politicians on the right, when it comes to somebody saying
[00:20:42] this person should not have their job because of their speech, is there a
[00:20:45] difference between the government doing it and other people
[00:20:49] doing it? Cancel culture, and just to be clear, it does come from the
[00:20:52] right and left and always has. But when you're talking about actual
[00:20:56] official government pressure to punish someone, that's just good old-fashioned
[00:21:00] authoritarian censorship.
[00:21:03] And on the night of Monday, September 15th, this moment on Jimmy
[00:21:07] Kimmel Live seems to have caught the attention of the U.S.
[00:21:10] government. We had some new lows over the weekend with
[00:21:14] the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who
[00:21:18] murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they
[00:21:21] can to score political points from it. In between the
[00:21:24] finger-pointing, there was grieving. This aired several
[00:21:28] hours before the Utah County Attorney's office
[00:21:31] filed formal charges against Utah native Tyler
[00:21:34] Robinson. In those charging documents, more details
[00:21:38] emerged about the alleged killer and his possible
[00:21:41] motive. Kimmel went to make light of the president and
[00:21:45] his reaction.
[00:21:47] On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-mast, which got some
[00:21:50] criticism. But on a human level, you can see how
[00:21:54] hard the president is taking this. My
[00:21:56] condolences.
[00:21:59] Sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir?
[00:22:03] I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks. They've
[00:22:07] just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House,
[00:22:10] which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150
[00:22:14] years. And it's going to be a beauty.
[00:22:17] Yes, he's at the fourth stage of
[00:22:20] construction. It probably was a joke that would
[00:22:23] upset the president, because a lot of jokes upset him. But in this case, he looked very
[00:22:27] callous.
[00:22:29] It turns out Jimmy Kimmel upset many people that night. I
[00:22:33] think that it was just too soon, right? So if you want to make fun of
[00:22:37] Donald Trump, the President of the United States, have at it, right?
[00:22:40] He's a public figure, he's fair game. But we're to talk about
[00:22:44] the potential shooter as being MAGA with no
[00:22:47] basis in fact. So I think what people found reprehensible, just the
[00:22:51] joking in general about some young person's death so shortly
[00:22:54] thereafter.
[00:22:57] Kimmel insists he wasn't calling the shooter MAGA, but either way,
[00:23:00] it certainly was not the first time people were offended by what they saw on
[00:23:04] network television. TV shows get canceled all the
[00:23:08] time, but usually the tension is only between the stars
[00:23:11] and the producers versus the network or the distributor. This time there
[00:23:15] was a third party, the government. This Kimmel story
[00:23:19] was different. The government pressure and a reflection. In the
[00:23:22] last couple of days, here's the moment that changed the conversation. You
[00:23:26] when you look at the conduct that has taken place by Jimmy
[00:23:30] Kimmel, um, it appears to be
[00:23:33] some of the sickest conduct
[00:23:37] possible. This is Federal Communications Commission chairman
[00:23:40] Brendon Carr on the Benny Show podcast, a
[00:23:44] pro-MAGA podcast, two days after Kimmel's controversial
[00:23:47] comment. Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, look, we
[00:23:51] can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can
[00:23:54] find ways to change conduct and take action
[00:23:58] frankly on Kimmel, or there's going to be
[00:24:01] additional work for the FCC ahead. It's hard to think
[00:24:05] of a clearer example of the government crossing that line into
[00:24:08] coercion than when Brandon Carr says, "We can do this the easy way or the hard
[00:24:12] way." That's a textbook example of what the courts have
[00:24:16] said would violate the First Amendment. There are actions that we
[00:24:19] can take on licensed broadcasters, and frankly, I think that it's it's it's
[00:24:24] these licensed broadcasters themselves push
[00:24:27] back on Comcast and Disney and say, "Listen, we are going to preempt. We're not going
[00:24:31] to run Kimmel anymore until you
[00:24:34] straighten this out, because we, we licensed broadcasters, are
[00:24:38] running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the
[00:24:41] FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being
[00:24:45] a pattern of news distortion." It's time for them to
[00:24:48] step up and say this garbage, to the extent
[00:24:52] that that's what comes down the pipe in the future, isn't something that we think
[00:24:55] serves the needs of our local communities. But because I've spent
[00:24:58] so much time myself studying FCC policy over
[00:25:02] the years, I knew immediately that that had to do with
[00:25:05] whether the FCC would investigate these
[00:25:08] stations for proper conduct, which the FCC is
[00:25:11] allowed to do, what that implies is if these stations aren't
[00:25:15] properly serving the public interest in their communities now
[00:25:19] being defined, by chairman Carr of the FCC as something very
[00:25:22] specific about how they treat President Trump, then they might have
[00:25:26] to worry about their television station licenses. There's no one in the
[00:25:30] television business that did not hear it that way.
[00:25:34] How broadcast television works is you have these big national
[00:25:37] networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, they
[00:25:40] rely on deals they have with stations all around the
[00:25:44] country, and these stations are what carry their national programming into
[00:25:47] every nook and cranny of the country.
[00:25:50] Those television stations are licensed by the
[00:25:53] government.
[00:25:56] The same day, Chairman Carr spoke on that podcast, Domino's started to
[00:26:00] fall a shocking clip.
[00:26:03] "The FCC chair suggested that his agency may revoke affiliate
[00:26:06] licenses and hours later, two broadcast groups had announced that they would
[00:26:10] preempt or pull Kimmel's show from 62 TV markets or
[00:26:14] regions. Nexstar was the first station
[00:26:17] group to say that we are refusing to air
[00:26:21] Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.
[00:26:23] Sinclair, with very conservative organization up the
[00:26:27] ante by saying he has to do apology and he has to make donation to
[00:26:30] Turning Point Charlie Kirk's organization."
[00:26:33] Nexstar is the largest owner of local TV stations
[00:26:37] in the country and is also trying to purchase another major broadcast
[00:26:41] media company called Tegna for $6.2
[00:26:44] billion. Nexstar not only
[00:26:47] needs the FCC and Brendon Carr to approve this
[00:26:51] merger of its next largest rival, but to
[00:26:54] change the rules to allow them to do so. By
[00:26:58] law, broadcasters cannot reach more
[00:27:01] than 39% of the households in our country, if
[00:27:04] they succeed in purchasing Tegna, they will reach
[00:27:08] 80% of those households, so they will be asking the
[00:27:11] FCC to lift that cap. When an FCC
[00:27:14] chair says something like local
[00:27:18] affiliates should do X, there's this
[00:27:22] the owners of those local affiliates might need
[00:27:26] the FCC chair on their side for
[00:27:29] big lucrative business decisions, right? Yeah,
[00:27:33] when uh, the FCC threatens to take enforcement
[00:27:36] action, companies pick up their ears and they might
[00:27:40] act. Yeah, they want to curry favor with the FCC,
[00:27:43] they want to be on their good side.
[00:27:47] After the local stations decided to boycott Jimmy Kimmel Live,
[00:27:51] ABC Network and its parent company Disney soon
[00:27:54] followed. The breaking news, ABC, the network
[00:27:58] pulling Jimmy Kimmel from the air, a network spokesperson saying
[00:28:01] simply, Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted
[00:28:04] indefinitely. Just moments ago, the administration's rapid
[00:28:07] response media team posted this online which
[00:28:11] reads they're doing their viewers a favor. Jimmy is a sick
[00:28:15] freak. CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter. You
[00:28:18] reached out to the FCC Chairman Carr. What did
[00:28:22] he tell you? And he sent me the gift that we will put on
[00:28:25] screen, Anderson. It's a picture from the old NBC
[00:28:28] sitcom The Office. So he is celebrating Disney's capitulation.
[00:28:32] And here, Brian, I, we're putting this on the screen, the
[00:28:36] chairman of the FCC sent you
[00:28:38] this
[00:28:40] video. In all my years reporting on the FCC, I've
[00:28:44] never received a gift as a statement. I shared that
[00:28:47] gift on X, it was reposted and reshared, ends up having
[00:28:51] millions of views, and it gets his point across better than
[00:28:55] any statement could. "Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more
[00:28:58] than anything else." And he said, "Based on my reporting, that is just...
[00:29:02] simply not true. Jimmy was never taken off the air
[00:29:06] because of bad ratings."
[00:29:10] "The guy had no talent. Look, he was fired, he had no talent, he's a whack
[00:29:13] job." is on network
[00:29:17] television, there is licensing. I'll give you an
[00:29:20] example, I read someplace that the networks were
[00:29:23] 97% against me. I get 97%
[00:29:27] negative, and if they're 97%
[00:29:31] against, they give me only bad public or
[00:29:34] press, mean they're getting a license.
[00:29:38] I would think maybe their license should be taken
[00:29:42] away. It will be up to Brendon Carr.
[00:29:45] If you notice there, the President just segued from comedy he doesn't like
[00:29:49] to network news he doesn't like. Do you
[00:29:52] think that Brendon Carr as chair of the FCC has weaponized the
[00:29:56] FCC? I think this administration is weaponizing every
[00:30:00] agency it has under its power right now, and it has
[00:30:03] asserted that even though the FCC is an independent agency, that
[00:30:07] it has to do its will, and so we are using
[00:30:11] our leverage over private companies to do this
[00:30:15] administration's will.
[00:30:18] How serious an offense against the First Amendment do you think it is what happened to
[00:30:22] Jimmy Kimmel? I can't think of anything where a government was
[00:30:26] more directly and openly threatening. Yeah, one of the things that I
[00:30:29] found so remarkable about the whole Jimmy Kimmel thing, was
[00:30:35] the FCC was, how up front Trump himself was, saying that it's the
[00:30:38] stated goal of my administration to get rid of
[00:30:42] late-night comedians. That I'm not familiar
[00:30:45] with in American history. Um, there have been
[00:30:48] presidents to be clear who are not good on freedom of speech, they tended
[00:30:52] not to brag about it though, or if there were fingerprints you didn't see
[00:30:56] them. Yeah, that's one of the fascinating things about the Trump administration.