{"id":34436,"date":"2025-07-24T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/34436\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:16:08","slug":"fccs-brendan-carr-pleased-with-skydance-commitment-to-reform-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/34436\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC’s Brendan Carr ‘Pleased’ With Skydance Commitment to Reform CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFCC<\/a> Chairman Brendan Carr<\/a> said Thursday he was \u201cpleased\u201d with commitments from Skydance Media to reform CBS<\/a>, as the agency nears a decision on the $8 billion Paramount merger.<\/p>\n

\n\tSkydance submitted a letter<\/a> this week pledging to hire an ombudsman to address complaints of media bias and to present \u201ca diversity of viewpoints\u201d on CBS<\/a> news programming.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey are committing to serious changes at CBS,\u201d Carr said. \u201cI think that would be a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCarr, speaking at his monthly FCC press conference, did not give an update on the timing of approval of the Paramount-Skydance merger. Skydance has also committed<\/a> to eliminating various initiatives on diversity, equity and inclusion \u2014 though Paramount previously rolled back many of its DEI programs<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarr said both the anti-DEI pledge and Skydance\u2019s promise to hire a CBS ombudsman are \u201csignificant commitments\u201d that will be considered as part of the merger approval process.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s a good thing,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re hitting on issues that I think we need to see significant change on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Carr has repeatedly weighed in this week on CBS\u2019s cancellation of \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe partisan left\u2019s ritualist wailing and gnashing of teeth over Colbert is quite revealing,\u201d he said on X. \u201cThey\u2019re acting like they\u2019re losing a loyal DNC spokesperson that was entitled to an exemption from the laws of economics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also echoed the White House criticisms of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View.\u201d On Wednesday\u2019s episode, co-host Joy Behar slammed<\/a> Trump for being \u201cjealous of Obama.\u201d The White House fired back, calling Behar an \u201cirrelevant loser\u201d and suggesting that \u201cThe View\u201d would be \u201cthe next to be pulled off air.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a Fox News interview on Thursday, Carr was asked if \u201cThe View\u201d is \u201cin the crosshairs of this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s entirely possible that there\u2019s issues over there,\u201d Carr said. \u201cOnce President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there\u2019s a lot of consequences. I think the consequences of that aren\u2019t quite finished.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCarr was asked at the FCC press conference to clarify whether he was referring to governmental \u201cconsequences\u201d or merely a decline in ratings.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI do think you see significant lower ratings,\u201d he said, noting that \u201cThe Late Show\u201d was reportedly losing upwards of $40 million a year. \u201cI do think there\u2019s a lot of consequences once you sort of expose, as President Trump has, what\u2019s going on with a lot of these institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCarr did not take the bait when asked to address Wednesday\u2019s \u201cSouth Park\u201d episode<\/a> that mocked Trump and Paramount\u2019s decision to settle Trump\u2019s nuisance lawsuit for $16 million. \u201cI\u2019m not a \u2018South Park\u2019 watcher,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday he was \u201cpleased\u201d with commitments from Skydance Media to reform CBS, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[17105,991,88,3092,27689,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-34436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-brendan-carr","9":"tag-cbs","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fcc","12":"tag-skydance-media","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}