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Paramount Reaches $16 Million Settlement With Donald Trump in ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
The agreement includes no apology and a provision for “60 Minutes” to “release transcripts of interviews with eligible U.S. presidential candidates after such interviews have aired”
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Paramount and Skydance’s Merger May Finally Escape Trump’s Legal Penalty Box
The $8 billion merger, which remains stuck in regulatory limbo, could see movement with settlement talks picking up and a critical shareholder meeting on Wednesday
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FCC Asks for Public Input on Changing Broadcast TV Station Ownership Rules
Entities are currently limited to owning or controlling stations that, in the aggregate, reach no more than 39% of the television audience
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Local Broadcasters on the Block: Why TV Station Owners Are Exploring Sales
Allen Media Group is the latest to put up a “for sale” sign as the value has changed for these once-lucrative media assets
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Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington to Step Down
Simington, who was confirmed to the agency at the end of President Trump’s first term in December 2020, will exit at the end of the week
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Wages a Lonely Fight for Press Freedom in Trumpland
Facing Brendan Carr and Trump’s punitive actions against media companies, the commission’s outnumbered Democrat publicly pushes back
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FCC Approves $20 Billion Verizon-Frontier Communications Merger
Commission chair Brendan Carr says Verizon committed to end its DEI practices as part of the deal
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FCC Commissioner Says Trump Is Waging a ‘Campaign to Censor and Control’ and ‘Harassing’ Broadcasters | Video
“There is no case of news distortion in the ’60 Minutes’ interview” with Kamala Harris, Anna M. Gomez tells Jake Tapper
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FCC Chair Says CBS-Trump Settlement Talks Have Nothing to Do With Paramount-Skydance Deal Review
Brendan Carr added “all options remain on the table” in its “60 Minutes” investigation after the president called for the “maximum fines and punishment”
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FCC Chair Criticizes Comcast for ‘News Distortion’ After White House Complains About MSNBC Coverage
Brendan Carr dings the cable news network for not carrying a press briefing on deportations
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FCC to Investigate Disney Over DEI Practices
Brendan Carr says he’s putting the “finishing touches” on a letter for the ABC parent company
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FCC Chair Threatens to Block M&A for Companies That Embrace DEI Policies
“If there’s businesses out there that are still promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination, I really don’t see a path forward,” Brendan Carr says
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Senator Richard Blumenthal Slams FCC’s ‘Unprecedented, Intrusive’ Investigations Into Paramount-Skydance, Comcast, NPR and PBS
The Democrat is heading an inquiry into the agency’s “apparent retaliatory actions against news organizations targeted by President Donald Trump”
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Trump’s New FCC Chair Investigates iHeartMedia for Possible ‘Payola’ Violations
Brendan Carr gave iHeart 10 days to respond to a laundry list of questions regarding artists allegedly playing free gigs for better airtime
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3 Former FCC Bosses Condemn New Chairman’s Attacks on Press: ‘If We Lose the First Amendment We’ve Lost Everything’
The FCC “has always been a bulwark against government encroachment on the First Amendment rights,” former chair Reed Hundt tells Oliver Darcy