Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Compatibility

Organizers will not stand on the Skydance Road Paramount acquisition. Its Federal Communications Committee has consent Buy $ 8 billion in Paramount Global and its branches, including the parent company of CBS. In a statement, the head of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Brendan Carr said that he welcomes “Skydance’s commitment to make major changes to the CBS broadcasting network.” He said that Skydance has made written obligations to ensure that “its news and entertainment programming will embody a variety of views through the political and ideological spectrum.” He also said that Skydance “committed that she will not create” Dei programs.

“The Americans no longer trust in the old national media to report complete, accurate and fair reporting. It is time to change … these obligations, if implemented, CBS will enable work in the public interest and focus on fair and non -urgency coverage, and learning based on facts. Read.

However, the Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC), Anna M. Gomez, a statement saying that she cannot support the deal “in light of payment and other disturbing concessions that were made to settle an unfounded lawsuit.” In early July, Paramount He agreed to pay 16 million dollars To settle the lawsuit submitted by Donald Trump an interview with CBS with Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential campaign.

Legal experts said at the time that Paramount has settled to ensure that there are no obstacles to the approval of the merger. When news about the acquisition first appeared, the company said it was planning to rebuild broadcasting technology while reducing costs under the new CEO David Ellison. Paramount, after all, invested billions in the Paramount+broadcasting service, and has not yet won. The company said it is allocating $ 16 million to Trump’s presidential library in the future and not paying it “directly or indirectly.”

“In an unprecedented step, this Federal Communications Committee, which was once independent, used its broad power to pressure the importance of the mediator for a special legal settlement and erosion of freedom of the press,” Gomez said in its statement. “Once again, the agency undermines the legitimate efforts to combat discrimination and expand opportunities by overcoming its authority and interfering in employment issues allocated to other government entities with a judicial jurisdiction appropriate to these cases. Even more worrying, it is now imposed on unprecedented controls on the decisions of the newsroom and editorial wisdom, in a continuous violation of managers and the institution.”

She added: “I encouraged the importance of payment to pay and reckless approval those who believe that the government can – and it must – abuse it to extract financial and ideological concessions, demand for favorite treatment, and secure positive media coverage. It is a dark separation in a long and growing record of ill -treatment, and it is able to cost freedom. Because the unrestricted and unrestricted authority has no legal place in America.”