Paramount-Skydance Deal And Other Mergers Could Be Blocked Over DEI Policies, FCC Chief Brendan Carr Says
Paramount Global, Verizon and any other companies trying to gain the government’s blessing for mergers should eliminate ...
Skydance Alleges Project Rise Partners ‘Fraudulently Misrepresented’ Financing for Paramount Bid
Lawyers for Skydance are trying to fend off efforts by Project Rise investors to force Paramount to evaluate a higher $13.5 ...
FCC’s Brendan Carr warns DEI policies at Paramount, Verizon could threaten mergers
The FCC chair said mergers and acquisitions could face roadblocks from the federal agency if they do not reverse their DEI ...
FCC chair threatens to block mergers of media companies engaged in DEI
Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, cited Paramount’s planned merger with Skydance Media and Verizon’s deal to acquire Frontier.
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Paramount-Skydance And Other Pending Mergers Could Be Blocked Over DEI Policies, FCC Chief Brendan Carr Says
Last summer, Paramount announced a long-in-the-works $8 billion deal to combine with Skydance Media, telling investors it expected to close the transaction by the end of June. The FCC, which is ...
Skydance Slams ‘Unserious’ Rival Bidders for Paramount as Trying to ‘Hijack’ FCC Proceeding
The deal that would merge Skydance Media and Paramount Global is not over the finish line — and now lawyers for David Ellison ...
FCC Chair Threatens to Block M&A for Companies That Embrace DEI Policies
FCC chairman Brendan Carr has put companies who promote "invidious” DEI policies on notice, warning that he will block their ...
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Skydance Cites “Overwhelming Evidence” Of Fraud By Late-Arriving Paramount Bidder, Accuses It Of “Hijacking” Merger Review Process
Skydance’s legal team is fighting back against efforts to derail its pending $8 billion merger with Paramount Global, ...
Senator Richard Blumenthal Slams FCC’s ‘Unprecedented, Intrusive’ Investigations Into Paramount-Skydance, Comcast, NPR and PBS
The Democrat opened an inquiry into the agency's "apparent retaliatory actions against news organizations targeted by ...
Skydance tells FCC Project Rise's Paramount bid was 'unserious'
David Ellison's Skydance has asked the Federal Communications Commission to reject a complaint, which alleged that the ...
Conservative groups urge FCC to end probe into '60 Minutes' Harris interview
Conservative advocacy groups on Thursday asked the Federal Communications Commission to reject a news distortion complaint ...