Disney should shut down ABC and transfer content to streaming, brokerage says

(Reuters) -walt Disney, instead of selling the ABC network, you should close and reduce the content of the channel, regulatory risks and transfer to the flow platforms to unlock the higher valuation and wrote on Tuesday on Tuesday.

Recently, “FCC intervention has made it very expensive and very variable for Disney shareholders to have broadcasting licenses,” he said.

Disney’s decision to lift Kimmel’s show up to the air last week, late at night, the host’s right -wing activist Charlie Kirk assassination surrounding the assassination of a conservative turmoil in the midst of the free speech discussion in the United States added fuel.

After suspending, Federal Communication Commission President Brendan Carr’s comments on Kimmel’s comments on Kirk threatened to investigate, the Federal law revealed questions about the regulatory authority because the FCC prohibits a publisher’s negative scope or other speech license of the government.

Disney also faced the consumer reaction to suspend the suspension of Kimmel, and some subscribers responded by canceling Disney flow services.

ABC is very important for Disney’s mass access and sports rights negotiations, but even when the flow grows. However, the decreasing performance in recent years has seen decreasing performance, and as the masses gradually flow into more flow, it reflects industrial tendencies.

On Monday, Disney announced that the comedian returned to TV late at night.

The media company did not respond immediately to the request for comments about Needham Note.

According to Note, ABC, in the summer of 2025, both broadcast and cable channels only 2.4 million viewers averaged.

Late at night, shows and cable news hosts frequently gelled about President Donald Trump and his cabinet and pressed the media critics perceived through the case and regulatory warnings.

In July, Paramount announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s demonstration late at night and said that the decision had nothing to do with legal issues. Colbert described Paramount’s $ 16 million settlement with Trump, two days before the cancellation of his show, he described a “a big fat bribe”.

In December, ABC paid 15 million dollars to solve the insult case of Trump’s words about the Capa George Stephanopoulos’ words about E. Jean Carroll.

(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese and Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru;