FCC approves Skydance-Paramount $8B merger
July 24 (UPI) -- The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced its approval of Skydance's $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global, ending months of uncertainty…
FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger following protracted political tug-of-war
David Ellison stepped within reach of his hard-fought prize, Paramount Global, after winning regulators’ blessing for his Skydance Media’s $8-billion takeover of the storied media…
DEI is dead at Paramount, David Ellison’s Skydance promises FCC
David Ellison’s Skydance Media pledged to abandon all diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Paramount Global in an attempt to win government approval for its…
T-Mobile drops DEI program while awaiting FCC approval to buy U.S. Cellular
T-Mobile announced Friday that it intends to remove its diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The company awaits FCC approval to buy US Cellular. File Photo…
Press group adds high-powered attorneys in fight against Paramount
With new legal muscle, the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation is upping pressure on Paramount Global to abandon efforts to settle President Trump’s $20-billion…
Paramount adds three new board members amid Trump troubles and FCC review
With its sale to Skydance Media still beyond its reach, Paramount Global has nominated three new directors to bolster its small board, which has been…
FCC commissioner sounds alarms about free speech ‘chilling effect’ under Trump
Federal Communications Commissioner Anna M. Gomez traveled to Los Angeles this week to sound an alarm that attacks on the media by President Trump and…
Trump, ‘60 Minutes’ and corruption allegations put Paramount on edge with sale less certain
One fateful October decision to trim two convoluted sentences from a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris has snowballed into a full-blown corporate…
Trump’s FCC delays multilingual emergency alerts for natural disasters
California Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán urged the Federal Communications Commission on Monday to follow through on plans to modernize the federal emergency alert system and…
Verizon wins FCC approval for $9.6-billion Frontier acquisition
Verizon Communications Inc. won Federal Communications Commission approval for its $9.6-billion acquisition of Frontier Communications Parent Inc. after agreeing to agency demands to pare back…
FCC Member Urges Bill to Curtail Cable Indecency
Congress should consider a bill to curb sex and obscenity on television even after cable TV companies Monday said they planned to offer packages of…
How Brendan Carr, Trump’s FCC chair, is rattling media giants
Amid President Trump’s fusillades against the media, a recent strike stood out:Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr took aim this month at cable giant…
FCC to investigate ‘DEI discrimination’ at Disney, ABC
1 of 2 | Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, pictured speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 29, on Thursday announced an…
FCC chair opens investigation into Disney and ABC for DEI practices
The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt Disney Co. and its broadcast subsidiary ABC over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs,…
CBS hits back at FCC over probe into ‘60 Minutes’ edits
CBS has asked the Federal Communications Commission to end its investigation into edits of its “60 Minutes” Kamala Harris interview, arguing that the federal government…
PBS and NPR on edge over FCC letter and Trump budget scrutiny
Forty years ago, the Reagan administration told PBS to find ways to increase funding for public television outside of taxpayer dollars.It did.PBS’ response to the…
FCC launches effort to ‘root out’ DEI programs, beginning with Comcast
The Federal Communications Commission has opened an inquiry into Comcast Corp.’s employee programs, stepping up efforts to “root out” diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that…
FCC and CBS release unedited ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris interview
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday took the unusual step of releasing raw transcripts and video footage of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice…
CBS to give full transcript of Harris’ 60 Minutes interview to FCC
1 of 2 | President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office on Friday and might be offered a settlement to end…
FCC demands CBS News turn over ’60 Minutes’ interview amid Trump lawsuit
CBS and its “60 Minutes” have long stood as shining beacons of broadcast news.The Sunday night newsmagazine, with its ubiquitous ticking clock, earned a reputation…