FCC Approves Paramount-Skydance Merger After Stephen Colbert Present Canceled

President Trump‘s FCC lastly gave the inexperienced gentle for a merger between Skydance Media and Paramount International … and the timing is attention-grabbing.

FCC chair Brendan Carr introduced the merger Thursday in an announcement that additionally referenced DEI.

Paramount and Skydance, a Hollywood studio, have been attempting to merge below one umbrella for some time now … and there was a bunch of politics concerned, together with a story that Trump used his energy to get CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert‘s late-night TV present.

Trump’s FCC accepted the $8 billion deal per week after Colbert’s present, which was tremendous important of Trump, was canned. CBS’ guardian firm is Paramount International.

FCC honcho Carr says … “Americans no longer trust the legacy national news media to report fully, accurately, and fairly. It is time for a change. That is why I welcome Skydance’s commitment to make significant changes at the once storied CBS broadcast network.”

Carr claimed Skydance made commitments to make sure its new content material will function “a diversity of viewpoints from across the political and ideological spectrum.” He additionally claimed Skydance promised to make adjustments to “root out the bias that has undermined trust in the national news media.”

The assertion concludes … “Today’s decision also marks another step forward in the FCC’s efforts to eliminate invidious forms of DEI.”