Carr Says FCC Will Consider 'Concerns' Over Skydance/Paramount
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Wednesday said the agency must address “concerns” about Skydance’s proposed purchase of Paramount’s CBS licenses. In a post on X, Carr, the agency's incoming chair, shared a petition challenging the deal from the Center for…
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American Rights, which has also filed a petition at the FCC calling for action against CBS over a 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. “This filing from CAR raises what it describes as significant concerns, including ones that go to CBS's adherence to the public interest standard,” Carr said. This isn’t the first time Carr has suggested that the Paramount deal could face scrutiny from his FCC. “I'm pretty confident that news distortion complaint over the CBS 60 Minutes transcript is something that's likely to rise in the context of the FCC review of that transaction,” Carr said in a November Fox News interview (see 2411190051). This also isn’t the first time Carr has boosted a filing from CAR: In November he posted the group’s complaint accusing NBC of violating the agency’s equal opportunity rules. Along with the petitions against CBS and NBC, CAR also filed an FCC complaint against ABC over its moderation of a 2024 presidential debate.