{"id":284132,"date":"2026-07-17T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=284132"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:59:44","slug":"abc-nbc-and-cnn-decline-to-air-trumps-speech-on-primary-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/284132\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC, NBC and CNN decline to air Trump\u2019s speech on primary platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two of the three major US television networks and CNN did not broadcast a prime-time address on Thursday by President Donald Trump on their primary platforms, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The speech focused on election security, four months before the critical midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Instead of airing the speech on their main broadcast channels, the networks chose to carry Trump’s remarks on some of their other media platforms.<\/p>\n

During his speech, Trump said that networks that did not air his speech were ‌engaged in a “plot” and should have their licenses revoked.<\/p>\n

Networks have broad First Amendment rights to decide what they choose to broadcast, experts say. But historically, broadcasters have carried most such speeches on the grounds that they provide information of public importance.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two of the three major US television networks and CNN did not broadcast a prime-time address on Thursday by President Donald Trump on their primary platforms, Reuters writes. The speech focused on election security, four months before the critical midterm elections. Instead of airing the speech on their main broadcast channels, the networks chose to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":284069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284137,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284132\/revisions\/284137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}