{"id":388971,"date":"2025-11-19T02:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388971\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:55:13","slug":"the-presidents-views-on-abc-could-impact-nfln-espn-media-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388971\/","title":{"rendered":"The President&#8217;s views on ABC could impact NFLN-ESPN media merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The massive media merger between NFL Network and ESPN hinges on the approval of the current administration. Which makes the joint relationships of the NFL and ESPN\/ABC\/Disney with President Trump critical to the question of whether discretion will be exercised to give a thumb\u2019s up \u2014 or a thumb\u2019s down.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the thumb would seem to be inclined to point down.<\/p>\n<p>In an Oval Office press conference with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked President Trump about the ongoing controversy regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump repeated his position that the entire issue is a \u201cDemocrat hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd people are wise to your hoax,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd ABC, your company, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S2jcNZo7x1E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">your crappy company<\/a>, is one of the perpetrators. And I\u2019ll tell you something, I\u2019ll tell you somthing. I think the license should be taken away from ABC. Because your news is so fake, and it\u2019s so wrong. And we have a great [FCC] Commissioner, chairman, who should look at that. Because I think when you come in, and when you\u2019re 97-percent negative to Trump, and then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that obviously means your news is not credible, and you\u2019re not credible as a reporter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether that means there will be a grudge that will harm the NFLN-ESPN merger, which would end with the league acquiring 10 percent of ESPN, remains to be seen. But it\u2019s another tangible example of the periodic animosity that could make it harder for the league and ESPN\/ABC\/Disney getting the approval on which the pending deal relies. And it makes it worthwhile to watch for any and all potential flashpoints between the league, Disney, and the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The massive media merger between NFL Network and ESPN hinges on the approval of the current administration. Which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115574114467610781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}