The FCC Chairman spoke on blocking merger proposals from companies practicing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Paramount is now on the clock.

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt Disney Co. and its broadcast subsidiary ABC over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Chairman

FCC chair Brendan Carr, after publicly musing that he might go after Disney over its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, made it official: The agency has opened a probe into DEI practices at Disney and ABC. It’s the latest warning shot from Carr against media companies in the Trump administration’s war against DEI.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and activist Robby Starbuck have met to discuss how the agency can root out DEI from the telecommunications sector.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr indicated in a March 28 letter that the FCC will investigate the company's DEI initiatives.

President Donald Trump’s FCC commissioner said Friday he’s opening an investigation into the Walt Disney Co. and its ABC television network to see whether they are “promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.”

In that letter, Carr accused Disney’s broadcast network ABC of “attempting to extract onerous financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations under the threat of terminating long-held affiliations, which could result in blackouts and other harms to local consumers of broadcast news and content.”