Teamsters and CAR Want FCC Conditions on Skydance Buy of Paramount
The International Human Brotherhood of Teamsters, Fuse Media and the Center for American Rights each called for the FCC to impose conditions on Skydance's acquisition of Paramount. The views were expressed in a Tuesday meeting with aides to Commissioner Olivia…
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Trusty, according to a joint filing posted Thursday. The Teamsters said the agency should require CBS stations for the next eight years to have the same number of full-time station employees as it did on July 7, 2024. Fuse Media said New Paramount should be required to set aside a fixed percentage of programming on its streaming platforms for content from “independent content sources.” Along with a requirement that the company recruit “from a wide range of ideological viewpoints,” the Center for American Rights said the FCC should require “increased network carriage of locally produced content from affiliated and owned-and-operated stations.”