The United States communications regulatory board is ramping up its probes into both the BBC and the American-based ABC News.
The Federal Communications Commission made the announcement on Wednesday, local time, that they would be reviewing agreements made with national networks and local broadcast stations Stateside.
This came just one day after President Donald Trump criticised an ABC news journalist, who asked Saudi Arabia's crown prince about the killing of a Washington Post columnist back in 2018.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr said the review will probe into stations' programming and public interest grounds.
Additionally, the watchdog is examining an episode of the British BBC show, Panorama, over an edit of a speech delivered by Trump back in 2021.
The current affairs show edited two clips together of Trump giving a speech before the January 6th riots.
Trump has already threatened to sue the BBC for defamation over the edit, and now Carr has announced he wants to determine if the BBC provided either the video or audio of the spliced speech to any broadcaster "regulated by the FCC for airing in the US".
Carr has already faced heavy criticisms over actions made as the head of the watchdog this year, most notably the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel in September, which faced international backlash and protest and was ultimately reversed.
