Free speech does not give someone the right to use limited publicly owned airwaves to say whatever they want. You are forgetting that the airwaves are not privately owned. If they were, then this would indeed be against free speech.

For example, the government has no right to say what can be printed, or put on a website, or even what can be said on cable television. But broadcast is different. And as our country is rather politically divided, it is the government's responsibility to make sure that the viewpoints heard on publicly owned airwaves fairly represent the public's viewpoints, and not the viewpoints of the large corporations that own the stations.

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