The Trump administration approves the sale of Paramount, the mother company of CBS

The American telecommunications regulator, the FCC, gave its green light Thursday to the acquisition of the global paramount media group by the Skydance production company, with changes in editorial line within the CBS channel, a very atypical condition.

The agreement comes at the end of a sequence which will have seen Paramount Solder, in early July, a legal litigation with Donald Trump, then announce the end of the program The Late Showwhose host, Stephen Colbert, is very critical of the American president.

It took a year to the American authorities to decide on the Skydance project, which put $ 8.4 billion on the table in order to take the reins of the group built on the legendary paramount centenary studio.

The FCC not mentioned, in its press release, almost only aspects unrelated to the preservation of competition and the activities of the two companies, which are most often decisive in the regulator’s decision.

The agency notably obtained from Skydance the promise to adopt, within the CBS channel, measures likely to correct the biases that have undermined confidence [du public] in the national media.

Donald Trump regularly criticized CBS, accusing him of being out of control.

In mid-April, he attacked the show 60 Minutesguilty of defamation, and said he was in favor of the director of FCC sanction the chain for its illegal behavior.

In October, he had attacked CBS in court, accusing 60 Minutes To have misleaded an interview with his Democrat Rival Kamala Harris a few weeks earlier.

In early July, Paramount agreed to pay $ 16 million to put an end to this procedure, in which the Republican billionaire asked for $ 20 billion in damages.

An agreement denounced

Several votes were then amounted to denounce Paramount’s decision, accused of buying the favors of the American president to obtain the green light from the FCC.

Stephen Colbert, Presentor You Late Showflagship program for the third part of the evening, described this payment of Bon thick can-come.

I do not know if it will be possible to restore me to confidence in this companylaunched the sixty -something humorist.

A few days later, the CBS channel announced the stop of the famous talk show after the 2025-2026 season, evoking a Purely financial decision.

Beyond corruption, this agreement is also A maneuver from the Trump government To bring the journalistic coverage of CBS to promote the right Magacommented on X the Democrat Senator Ed Markey, in reference to the slogan of Donald Trump.

This is exactly what censorship in the United States looks like.

The FCC also received from Skydance the insurance of the abolition of programs to promote diversity and inclusion within the Paramount group.

Donald Trump intends to make these initiatives disappear from all companies, public entities and educational establishments, considering them as an instrument of anti-white discrimination.

Skydance absorption must help relaunch Paramount, whose turnover contracts and which is struggling to be profitable.

The group tries, like its competitors, to develop in continuous broadcasting, with its paramount+platform, but the service is a small thumb in the sector and remains in deficit, more than four years after its launch.

Skydance will now have to prove that synergies can be cleared with paramount, the studio relying on a model very different from its target.

Producer of several saga components Mission: Impossible as well as Top Gun: MaverickSkydance does not have its own diffusion channels.

It was created in 2010 by David Ellison, son of the co -founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, who positioned him as a very efficient start -up company in terms of new technologies.