Jimmy Kimmel moves Senate interview to YouTube in latest collision with FCC

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has said that an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on the network, citing growing intrusion from the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over political candidates’ “equal time” rules.Talarico is running in Texas against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in a race that could decide control of the US Senate in November.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Hong Kong court rules Dow Jones tried to stop journalist taking union rolelist 2 of 4Trump promises $5,000 payouts if GOP wins midterms: Can the US afford it?list 3 of 4Oil jumps to $105, pushing up chances of a US interest rate increaselist 4 of 4The Trump-to-Mamdani voter is real. How does the trend affect the midterms?end of listOn Wednesday’s broadcast, Kimmel said that he would be interviewing Talarico under “unusual circumstances”, adding that, over the show’s more-than-two-decade run, he had been “interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all”.But in January, the Republican-led FCC said that daytime and late-night TV talk shows are no longer considered “bona fide” news programmes that are exe...