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The FCC approved Skydance Media's $8 billion bid to acquire Paramount, the parent company of CBS. The green light from the FCC comes after Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement with President Trump over his lawsuit accusing “60 Minutes” of deceptively editing an interview with then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“60 Minutes” has found its new executive producer after Bill Owens exited the news program ahead of Paramount’s settlement with Donald Trump. Tanya Simon, who was most recently the interim EP for the CBS show, will now serve as its executive producer.
CBS News has named a new “60 Minutes” executive producer to replace Bill Owens, the longtime producer who resigned from the job just weeks before the network’s parent company settled a lawsuit brought against the program by President Trump.
CBS News tapped Tanya Simon to become the "60 Minutes" executive producer following parent company Paramount's major settlement to President Donald Trump.
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Daily Voice on MSNFCC Clears Paramount-Skydance Deal, Critics Slam 'Cowardly Capitulation' To TrumpThe Federal Communications Commission has approved Skydance Media's $8 billion takeover of Paramount Global, which critics have blasted as a move to appease President Donald Trump. The FCC cleared the deal in a 2-1 partisan vote on Thursday,
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Straight Arrow News on MSNCBS names new ‘60 Minutes' head as criticism of Paramount growsCBS News named a new executive producer of "60 Minutes" amid questions about the program's editorial independence after parent company Paramount paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump.
The network is not hiring an outsider to helm “60 Minutes” as the program’s correspondents feared might happen.
The deal, which came under intense scrutiny by the Trump administration, was hailed by the F.C.C. chief, who welcomed “significant changes” at CBS, a unit of Paramount.
The nasty battle between Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Paramount has seemingly come to an end, after a summer dedicated to a heated bidding war for the rights to “South Park”