FCC clears Paramount, Skydance merger
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Skydance Media offered olive branches to the Federal Communications Commission in order to secure approval for its $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global, and those overtures achieved the desired result.
Hours after announcing the approval of Skydance’s merger with Paramount, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr touted the company’s commitment to “addressing bias & restoring fact-based reporting” at CBS News, among other things.
The signoff on the deal, which could close next month, follows Paramount’s settlement of a Trump lawsuit.
David Letterman blasted his former network home CBS and the 'goons' at Skydance as he speculated that Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' was canceled for political reasons: 'Bottom feeders.'
The Oracle chairman will not have any "veto rights, or any special or outsized voting rights," per an amendment filed with the FCC
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