Disney CEO Defies FCC Chair After Kimmel Threats

ABC Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro made plain his company’s opposition to Brendan Carr’s FCC actions against Jimmy Kimmel: Live! and the agency’s investigations into the broadcast licenses of eight local Disney-owned ABC shows and The View .

“Our position on this is clear,” D’Amaro said in a CNBC interview during its D23 Expo.

“We’re very principled on this.

We’re going to stand up to what we believe is journalistic integrity.

And we’re not going to be told how to run that side of our business.

Our filings, I think, speak for that.

I like what we do.

We tell incredible stories.

I think we do it well.

We do it around the world.

And we’re going to stay committed to that.” The statement comes after months of limbo regarding the regulator’s early review of eight local ABC shows’ licenses and its investigation into the popular talk show The View .

The FCC ordered the reviews in ​April, just a day after Trump ⁠urged ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the FCC for comment.

FCC Chairman Carr claimed the reviews are a part of a broader investigation into Disney’s DEI policies.