Carr Counters Schiff's Concerns About FCC Approval of Skydance/Paramount
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr pushed back against claims that Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., made last month about irregularities in the commission’s process for approving Skydance’s $8 billion purchase of Paramount Global (see 2508190053). “There has been a lot of misinformation spread about the FCC’s review of this transaction,” Carr said in a letter to Schiff dated Aug. 25 and posted Thursday. “Contrary to your suggestions, the FCC ran a standard review process for this transaction, and I am proud of the agency’s work.”
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Carr made largely identical comments in response to other Democrats’ claims of corruption in the review process, including a probe by Senate Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee ranking member Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (see 2508270067). Some critics have cited Paramount’s settlement of President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS over its editing of an October 2024 interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris (see 2507250029).