{"id":20155,"date":"2025-07-25T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20155\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:34:09","slug":"fcc-approves-david-ellisons-skydance-medias-merger-with-channel-ten-owner-paramount-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20155\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC approves David Ellison\u2019s Skydance Media\u2019s merger with Channel Ten owner Paramount Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long-awaited merger between David Ellison\u2019s Skydance Media and Paramount Global \u2013 the owner of Australian free-to-air station Network Ten \u2013 has been given the green light by the US media regulator, weeks after Paramount settled a lawsuit with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission on Friday backed the deal after the Trump administration extracted concessions on the news and entertainment company\u2019s political coverage and diversity practices.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"-_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-awaited merger between David Ellison\u2019s Skydance Media and Paramount Global \u2013 the owner of Australian free-to-air station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-20155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}