Late-night and daytime talk shows must offer equal time for candidate interviews, FCC says

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7. OK, so

I've read that the Fairness Doctrine only applied to regular network broadcasts and that shows airing on cable were exempt; in fact, that's one of the arguments made about why restoring the rule wouldn't achieve as much since the rise of cable/streaming programming. Wondering if the same applies here? I mean, if the networks want to keep suffering body blows to their ratings when all these programs move away from what used to be considered the big three...