Is ‘The View’ a News Show? ABC Says That’s Already Settled.

ABC on Monday urged federal regulators to stick with a decision their predecessors made two decades ago that called “The View,” the network’s popular talk show, a news program.

The Federal Communications Commission has been investigating whether the show violated rules that require broadcasters to give equal time to political candidates from both parties. At the center of the debate is whether “The View” qualifies as a “bona fide news program,” which would exempt it from those rules.

In a filing to the agency on Monday, the network said that matter was already settled, citing a 2002 decision from the F.C.C. qualifying it for the exemption.

“Nothing about ‘The View’ that the law cares about has changed since the commission last answered that question more than two decades ago,” the network said in its petition. “The program remains regularly scheduled, remains under ABC’s control, and remains driven by the same lodestar — newsworthiness — that has long led it to interview the day’s most consequential figures.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/business/media/the-view-abc-fcc-investigation.html