(Graphic by The Desk)Key Points FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency will assess a talk show’s “partisan motivation” when deciding whether equal time rules apply to political interviews. The move could end decades-long exemptions for late-night and daytime talk shows aired on ABC, CBS and NBC; Fox will likely not be affected. Then, the FCC determined that the interview segments were newsworthy in nature, so the “equal time” rule did not apply. Those three complaints involve local TV stations owned by the Walt Disney Company’s ABC, Comcast’s NBC Universal and Paramount Global’s CBS. Complicating the deal is a lawsuit Nexstar is currently fighting that involves two of its former local TV news directors.