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Paramount, Skydance complete $8 billion merger as FCC continues CBS probe
Skydance Media and Paramount Global completed their $8 billion merger as the FCC continues investigating CBS News for alleged ...
Operation Robocall Roundup sends warning letters to robocall companies about illegal activity
State attorney generals across the U.S. have issued letters insisting a list of companies take action to stop illegal ...
“Libertarian” FCC Commissioner Was Believed to Be Uncomfortable with Paramount Deal: Exclusive
Nathan Simington By Josh Kosman Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington was uncomfortable approving Skydance’s ...
FCC seeks to shift power from national programmers to local broadcasters in public interest push
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr proposes shifting media influence from national networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC back to local ...
CBS TV chief breaks public silence on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' cancellation
CBS executive George Cheeks said Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" cancellation was due to economic challenges and declining late ...
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Oracle Heir David Ellison Signals He Wants To Clean Up Bias at CBS News, ‘60 Minutes,’ To Make Them Appealing to ‘Center Right’ Viewers
The Skydance chief executive says he wants there to be a news outlet that Democrats and Republicans can watch.
New Paramount Execs Address CBS News Independence; Ombudsman Will Be “A Transparency Vehicle, Not An Oversight Vehicle”
UPDATED, with FCC comments: New Paramount CEO David Ellison said that he had “no interest” in wading “into the political spectrum” with CBS News, as he and other executives addressed the independence ...
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CBS agreement with FCC includes hiring a “bias monitor” in “major attack” on free speech
CBS parent company Paramount recently reached an $8.4 billion merger agreement with Skydance Media, a deal the current ...
Gayle King's ‘CBS Mornings’ struggles with ratings decline ahead of looming ownership change
A longtime network morning show veteran believes "CBS Mornings" co-anchor Gayle King "has lost a lot of her leverage" with an ...
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As Skydance Takes Over Paramount, David Ellison Won’t Comment on ‘Side Deal’ With Trump, Or on Cleanup of CBS News
The chief executive of Skydance, David Ellison, is now in control of CBS and its parent company, Paramount, but he is not ...
Gayle King’s CBS Future Reportedly in the Air After Paramount Merger
The speculation surrounding King’s CBS future comes as Paramount recently sealed an $8.4 billion merger with the media ...
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FCC’s Brendan Carr Says Late-Night TV Is Dying Because Stephen Colbert, Others Have Gone From ‘Court Jesters’ to Anti-Trump ‘Court Clerics’
They stopped going for joke lines and laugh lines and they started going for applause lines,’ the FCC chairman says.