The Watchdog with David Bozell

Enough is enough. 

ABC has treated the public airwaves like its personal campaign machine, and we’re taking action to stop it.

Yesterday, the MRC filed a 25-page Petition to Deny the broadcast license renewals for ABC’s eight owned-and-operated stations. This is the direct result of months of MRC research and advocacy that forced the FCC to confront ABC’s blatant misconduct. And the New York Post just dropped an exclusive on our petition.

Walt Disney’s ABC has First Amendment rights. But as our petition makes clear, it does not have a right to the public airwaves. Those frequencies belong to the American people. Broadcasters are held to a higher public interest standard under FCC rules, a standard ABC has repeatedly violated.

As America’s premier media watchdog, we have reviewed nearly 50,000 hours of ABC programming and produced hundreds of studies proving it is consistently the most biased of the three major broadcast networks, and that’s saying something.

ABC’s news division ran 100% positive coverage of Kamala Harris and 93% negative on Trump before the presidential debate, then put David Muir in the moderator’s seat. Jimmy Kimmel pushed the lie that Charlie Kirk’s shooter was “MAGA,” which got him suspended after MRC exposed the video. 

The View is pure electioneering. It hosted 128 Democrat-aligned guests to just 2 Republicans in 2025 — 27-1 this year. An ABC executive producer admitted they wouldn’t invite President Trump. Hosts have confessed they soft-pedaled criticism of Biden and Harris to avoid helping Trump.

Last week, MRC filed comments with the FCC showing that The View is not a “bona fide news interview” program, which means ABC is not entitled to the FCC’s equal‑time exemption it tries to claim.

Our petition details four major violations by ABC: electioneering, story suppression, excusing political violence, and spreading misinformation.

ABC can pursue its partisan agenda on cable and streaming. It should not be permitted to do so on the public airwaves.

Take it easy,

David Bozell
President