FCC, Skydance Media and CBS
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Skydance Media has made additional promises to the FCC in an effort to get approval for its $8 billion merger with Paramount Global.
Skydance committed to removing DEI programs and establishing a bias complaint system at CBS News as it seeks FCC approval for Paramount merger.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr praised Skydance Media’s commitment to hire an ombudsman for CBS News after it completes its merger with Paramount Global. The commitment was outlined in a filing with the FCC this week.
Skydance is providing even more insight into its commitment to ending DEI policies and eliminating CBS News’s alleged left-wing bias.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday he was “pleased” with commitments from Skydance Media to reform CBS, as the agency nears a decision on the $8 billion Paramount merger. Skydance submitted a letter this week pledging to hire an ombudsman to address complaints of media bias and to present “a diversity of viewpoints” on CBS
As the FCC reviews its proposed acquisition of Paramount Global, Skydance has committed to create an ombudsman position to review complaints of bias at CBS News. In a pair of filings on Wednesday, Skydance also said that it would end any diversity,
Big changes will come to CBS and CBS News, once Skydance's takeover of Paramount Global is closed.
Skydance, the entertainment company set to take over Paramount in an $8 billion merger, told federal officials this week that it will hire an ombudsman who will review “complaints of bias” at CBS News
Paramount, Skydance and National Amusements' push for FCC approval of their pending $8 billion merger deal continues, with representatives from the three companies meeting with the agency's lone Democrat commissioner Anna Gomez.