I refuse to watch Fox Sports unless they apologize for running the racist ad

Just for the record, stations are not allowed to censor, reject, or modify political ads in nearly all cases. There is legislation to that effect, and the FCC is similarly proscribed from taking action against a station even if the ad contains lies, profanity, or would in any other way run afoul of FCC regulations.

It’s the “no censorship” mandate and it’s been in place for decades. Originally it covered only over-the-air broadcast stations, but has been expanded to include all such ads on cable (and perhaps streaming, IDK.)

It’s also worth mentioning that stations were required to charge candidates the lowest possible rate for a candidate’s advertising (whatever the lowest rate was they sold to *any* advertiser including huge “bulk” buys in the preceding 90 days) and the USSC just “expanded” that to include any advertising on behalf of a candidate (although that is not written anywhere in the law. Another case of “this is what we want, and never mind all that stuff about ‘literal interpretation’ of the law.) That, of course, opened the floodgates for PACs and other interested parties to engage in all sorts of foolishness.

Note that if a candidate wants to advertise and you’re sold out, you have to bump one of your long standing advertisers to make room. It’s nice when the politicians write the rules to suit themselves, eh?