FCC Chair ‘Pleased’ With Skydance-Paramount Deal Concessions (1)

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said he’s happy with some of the concessions Skydance Media said it’s willing to make to win approval for its takeover of Paramount Global.

Skydance said this week that it would eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Paramount, if the deal goes through, and install an ombudsman to address complaints of news bias at the CBS network.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr

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“I was pleased with some of the filings that came in from Skydance just this week,” Carr said at a press conference following the commission’s regular meeting.

Carr declined to say when a final ...