Skydance leaders are open to the creation of an internal ombudsman for CBS News to provide Trump administration concerns about prejudice and above all, to gain approval for his joining with the media of Shari Redstone Paramount Global, in money have learned.
The concept of the Ombudsman-at the core of a layer of management by ensuring that the content of the news remains without political prejudice-can soothe the chairman of the Federal Communication Commission, Brendan Carr, who is hitting the agreement on left-wing partisanism concerns on one of the country’s best networks in the country, despite his promises of objectivity, according to people.
Carr is weighing his group of remedies that the parties must agree to win his blessing which also include some kind of supervision mechanism at CBS News, these people say.
A source close to Skydance tells the money that the idea of the Ombudsman is something Jeff Shell, the former NBC chief, who is expected to direct the united enterprise news operations, “would consider and like”.
A source close to Carr tells the money that the FCC chair has “some ideas in mind” for remedies that can end the stalemate. The idea of the Ombudsman, this person said: “Lings what you are thinking about.
An FCC spokesman had no comment. A representative of Skydance also refused to comment.
FCC – the main regulator on the broadcast media business – is a key player in the union between the independent film company and Paramount. According to federal law, the agency may deny local broadcasting licenses for companies and disrupt unanswers when there is evidence that news content violates so -called “public interest rules”.
These rules prohibit the transmission of news on public air waves (compared to the cable) containing significant political prejudices. CBS News, a paramount unit, has been set on fire by conservatives for years for a supposedly left slope in its programming.
Last month, FCC approval delayed the approval of the $ 8 billion agreement when a prejudice in the network began. The investigation followed a complaint made by a conservative legal outfit that fraudulently edited Kamala Harris’s controversial interview – 60 minutes during the 2024 presidential campaign height.
Money has previously reported that stopping an acceptable solution to the drug, Carr’s investigation may delay his decision to unite for months and maybe by the second half of the year. Players-including David Ellison, the chief of Skydance and Redstone, the ever poorer heir to her money for her father’s troubled media empire Sumner Redstone and get the deal closed until the first quarter of 2025.
Redstone is expected to earn $ 1.8 billion when the combination is colored. This is very necessary for the financial life to maintain the family wealth that is being distributed after the paramount actions declined due to major structural changes in the media business, including cutting the cord.
Ellison is the son of multi-millionaire co-founder Oracle Larry Ellison, a close friend of President Trump. Elder Ellison is behind some of the transaction funding that will meet his son’s ambitions to emerge as a leading player in the media business, entering Paramount Programming like CBS and Paramount Movie Studio and simplified operations to meet the increasingly difficult operating conditions of the broadcasting business.
Despite Elder Ellison’s friendship with Trump, such ambitions will have to wait while FCC and Carr are pleased that the new company will be different from the old one in terms of the claimed political prejudice in its direct programming.
Interview â € œ60 minutes € -Harris has been integrated into controversy since its broadcast on October 7.
Conservative groups, including the American Rights Center, or Tsar, soon discovered that CBS had previously aired a promotion of Harris interview, where her answer to a question about the Middle East seemed significantly less coherent.
As reported, Car filed a complaint to the FCC that caused the investigation and eventually dropped the Skydance-Paramount agreement. A recently released transcription of the interview shows that CBS actually edited the part down, though the network has said it did so to meet time limitations.
Carr is not impressed with CBS’s denials, nor President Trump, sources close to them point to money. Trump, when he was the GOP presidential candidate, filed a $ 20 billion lawsuit, claiming that “60 minutes” tried to help Harris’s campaign unfairly. Trump demanded the release of a complete transcript on top of monetary damage. Both sides are said to be conducting negotiations on solutions, though it is unclear how close they are to reach an agreement.
ABC recently agreed to pay $ 15 million Trump to pay off a defamation lawsuit over comments made by correspondent George Stephanopoulos, who said in the air that Trump was “responsible for the Rape” by writer E. Jean Carroll, statements that were false. Attachment money was donated to Trump’s presidential library.
Even with the Trump case, Carr’s investigation remains the largest point of climbing in the Skydance-Paramount agreement. People close to FCC investigation say there are still no major discussions about a solution.
FCC staff, as reported by On The Money, met with Car last week to obtain his views on possible remedies. They included the movement of some of the new company operations from the extremely progressive enclaves of Los Angeles and New York City and the employment of more ideologically diverse people.
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