Who Pays the Channels

Exhibit 946 · Statute

Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-104, sections 202 and 203 (broadcast ownership; term of licenses)

by eliminating any provisions limiting the number of AM or FM broadcast stations which may be owned or controlled by one entity nationally.

Section 202 directs the FCC to eliminate any national limit on the number of AM or FM stations one entity may own, to set local radio caps by market size (8 stations in markets of 45 or more, down to 5 in markets of 14 or fewer), to eliminate the national limit on the number of television stations and raise the national audience-reach limit to 35 percent, to review local television limits, and to review its ownership rules biennially. Section 203 sets broadcast licence terms of up to 8 years.

Source

United States Congress

Date

8 February 1996

Quoted from

Sec. 202(a), 110 Stat. 111

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ104/html/PLAW-104publ104.htm

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Exhibit 947 · Statute

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004, Pub. L. 108-199, Div. B, sec. 629 (national television audience-reach limit)

in section 202(c)(1)(B) by striking “35 percent” and inserting “39 percent”

Amends section 202(c)(1)(B) of the 1996 Act to change the national television audience-reach limit from 35 to 39 percent, adds a two-year divestiture period for entities that exceed it by acquisition, makes the quadrennial review under section 202(h) exclude rules on the 39 percent limit.

Source

United States Congress

Date

23 January 2004

Quoted from

Div. B, sec. 629(1), 118 Stat. 99

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ199/html/PLAW-108publ199.htm

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Exhibit 948 · Agency order

Memorandum Opinion and Order, Applications for Consent to the Transfer of Control of TEGNA Inc. to Nexstar Media Inc., DA 26-267, MB Docket No. 25-331

we grant the Applicants’ request for a waiver of the Commission’s National Television Ownership Rule

Bureau-level order granting the transfer and waiving the National Television Ownership Rule. Para. 9: after the transaction Nexstar would reach 54.5% of the national audience after the 50% UHF discount. Para. 3: the full Commission previously determined the agency can modify the 39% rule and the Bureau waives it for this transaction. Para. 44: Nexstar commits to maintain an increase in local programming hours for two years, and the grant is subject to its commitments; the Bureau declined to adopt the conditions proposed in the record. Para. 45: the combination will help preserve Nexstar's ability to influence network programming through collective negotiation and to preempt network programming in favor of programming that better serves the local community. Para. 81: the Bureau quotes the Digital First Project's statement that the record contains no evidence of reduced local news output, eliminated editorial judgment or diminished viewpoint diversity, and agrees. Nexstar commits to divest six stations. Granted by the Chief, Media Bureau, without a Commission vote.

Source

Federal Communications Commission, Media Bureau

Date

19 March 2026

Quoted from

Para. 3

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-267A1.pdf

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Para. 45 states: 'the combination provided by the Transaction will help preserve Nexstar’s ability to influence network programming through collective negotiation and to preempt network programming in favor of programming that better serves the local community.' Para. 81 is the Digital First Project's statement, quoted by the Bureau, which the Bureau agrees with; Nexstar's commitment (paras. 44, 7) concerns local programming hours, not news hours.

Exhibit 950 · Agency order

Report and Order, Amendment of Section 73.3555(e), National Television Multiple Ownership Rule, FCC 26-53, MB Docket No. 17-318 (with Gomez dissent)

Given this finding, we repeal the Commission’s national television multiple ownership rule.

The Commission repeals the national television multiple ownership rule and replaces it with case-by-case review of transactions. Appendix A amends 47 CFR 73.3555 by removing and reserving paragraph (e). The order states the Commission retains authority to change the national cap despite the 2004 statute. Chairman Carr and Commissioner Trusty issued separate statements; Commissioner Gomez dissented, writing that Congress set the cap and only Congress can change it (FCC-26-53A3).

Source

Federal Communications Commission

Date

6 August 2026 (adopted); 1 October 2026 (released)

Quoted from

Para. 7

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-26-53A1.pdf

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Exhibit 953 · Court order

Order, In re Nexstar-TEGNA Merger Litigation, No. 2:26-cv-00976-TLN-CKD (E.D. Cal.), Dkt. 172

Nexstar must not influence the management of the held-separate TEGNA business unit.

Preliminary injunction in DIRECTV’s and eight states’ Clayton Act section 7 suits. The court finds plaintiffs likely to succeed on the section 7 claim and requires Nexstar to hold TEGNA separate, to firewall retransmission-fee information and not to influence TEGNA’s management, including newsroom personnel and programming, pending final judgment. 52 pages. The copy is hosted by the Illinois Attorney General, a plaintiff.

Source

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California

Date

17 April 2026

Quoted from

Order p. 48, remedial para. 4

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/News-Room/Current-News/Dkt%20172%20Order%20granting%20PI%20Nexstar.pdf

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Copy hosted by a plaintiff state; replace with the CourtListener or PACER docket copy before publication. Appeal reported at the Ninth Circuit (No. 26-2490); status not checked.

Exhibit 958 · Company filing

Comcast Corporation definitive proxy statement (DEF 14A), security ownership table

This information is based upon a Schedule 13G/A filing with the SEC on February 13, 2024 made by BlackRock, Inc. setting forth information as of December 31, 2023.

Class A holders above 5%: The Vanguard Group 373,581,278 (10.0%, 13G/A filed 5 June 2025 as of 30 May 2025); BlackRock 298,215,422 (7.4%, 13G/A filed 13 Feb 2024 as of 31 Dec 2023); State Street 186,826,370 (5.1%, 13G filed 9 Feb 2026 as of 31 Dec 2025). Brian L. Roberts holds all 9,444,375 Class B shares and had sole voting power over 33 1/3% of the combined voting power.

Source

Comcast Corporation

Date

24 April 2026

Quoted from

Security ownership table, note (2)

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1166691/000119312526177138/cmcsa-20260424.htm

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Exhibit 962 · Company filing

The New York Times Company definitive proxy statement (DEF 14A), security ownership table

According to information contained in its most recent Schedule 13G/A, filed with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act on February 13, 2024, as of December 29, 2023, The Vanguard Group beneficially owned 15,809,453 shares of Class A stock.

Class A holders above 5%: Vanguard 15,809,453 (9.8%; 13G/A filed 13 Feb 2024 as of 29 Dec 2023); BlackRock 14,111,319 (8.8%; 13G/A filed 25 Jan 2024 as of 31 Dec 2023); T. Rowe Price Investment Management 10,247,094 (6.4%).

Source

The New York Times Company

Date

13 March 2026

Quoted from

Beneficial ownership table, note 11

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71691/000007169126000016/nyt-20260313.htm

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Exhibit 964 · Company filing

Fox Corporation definitive proxy statement (DEF 14A), security ownership table

As of 14 Sep 2026 Fox has non-voting Class A and voting Class B common stock. LGC Holdco, LLC holds 85,372,810 Class B shares (38.76% of Class B); State Street holds 17,474,836 Class A (8.68%) and 14,007,987 Class B (6.36%) (13G filed 7 Aug 2026 as of 30 Jun 2026 for Class A; 10 Nov 2025 as of 30 Sep 2025 for Class B); BlackRock holds 16,990,417 Class A (8.44%) and 11,421,333 Class B (5.19%) (13G/A filed 17 Apr 2025 as of 31 Mar 2025). The proxy lists no Vanguard holding above 5%. Lachlan K. Murdoch may be deemed a beneficial owner of LGC Holdco’s shares and disclaims beneficial ownership of them.

Source

Fox Corporation

Date

17 September 2026

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1754301/000162828026062480/fox-20260917.htm

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Exhibit 965 · Company filing

News Corporation definitive proxy statement (DEF 14A), security ownership table

Does not list Vanguard, BlackRock or State Street in text searched. States that the Murdoch Family Trust held approximately 40.7% of outstanding Class B common stock before a September 2025 sale by trusts for certain beneficiaries of 14,071,293 Class B shares (about $450 million gross proceeds). Ownership table not extracted in full.

Source

News Corporation

Date

23 September 2026

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564708/000110465926109969/tm2624691-1_def14a.htm

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Exhibit 979 · Company filing

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. annual report (Form 10-K), revenue by source

Consolidated net revenue for 2025 ($ millions): distribution 2,727; advertising 2,121; other 85; total 4,933. Distribution is primarily retransmission, carriage and affiliation fees and spectrum leasing; advertising includes political advertising in even-numbered years.

Source

Nexstar Media Group, Inc.

Date

27 February 2026

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1142417/000119312526078361/nxst-20251231.htm

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Exhibit 983 · Company filing

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. annual report (Form 10-K), revenue by source

Consolidated revenues for 2025 ($ millions): distribution 19,262; advertising 7,306; content 9,647; other 1,081; total 37,296. Advertising fell 10% from 8,090 in 2024.

Source

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Date

27 February 2026

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1437107/000143710726000020/wbd-20251231.htm

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Exhibit 957 · Court opinion

Memorandum Opinion and Order on summary judgment, US Dominion, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC, C.A. Nos. N21C-03-257 EMD and N21C-11-082 EMD

The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.

The court grants Dominion summary judgment on falsity and leaves actual malice for a jury. The opinion summarizes record evidence and each side’s argument. The opinion recounts record evidence of a viewership drop and Newsmax’s rise after Fox’s 7 November 2020 projection (p. 14). It summarizes Dominion’s argument that Fox published the statements in response to viewer backlash and declining ratings and profits (p. 34) and its financial-motive argument (p. 56). Fox News Network argued that ratings did not drive revenue, citing deposition testimony that revenue from TV providers makes up the majority of revenue and is not affected by viewership (p. 62 and n. 457). The opinion states positions and cites record evidence; the court did not decide intent.

Source

Superior Court of the State of Delaware (Judge Eric M. Davis)

Date

31 March 2023

Quoted from

Slip op. p. 43

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=345820

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Exhibit 991 · Congressional testimony

Opening statement of Hon. Bart Stupak, “Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Marketing, Education, or Deception?” (Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Energy and Commerce)

Nearly ten years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) relaxed its rules related to direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements for prescription pharmaceutical products.

Chairman’s statement opening the hearing on three TV ad campaigns (Lipitor with Robert Jarvik, Vytorin “Food and Family,” Procrit). Gives the chairman’s figures for DTC spending ($1.1 billion in 1997, $4.2 billion in 2005) and states that Merck and Schering-Plough’s Vytorin ads resulted in $5 billion in sales in 2007. A member’s statement, not a finding.

Source

U.S. House of Representatives

Date

8 May 2008

Quoted from

Statement, p. 1

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090102234502if_/http://energycommerce.house.gov/Subcommittees/OI-Stupak/050808.OI.hrg.DTC.pdf

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Archived copy of the committee’s 2008 page (UNT End of Term web archive). Hearing transcript or GPO hearing record not located.

Exhibit 992 · Peer-reviewed study

Medical Marketing in the United States, 1997-2016

DTC prescription drug advertising increased from $1.3 billion (79 000 ads) to $6 billion (4.6 million ads [including 663 000 TV commercials])

Special communication using Kantar Media advertising data and IQVIA data, 2016 dollars. DTC prescription-drug advertising rose from $1.3 billion (79,000 ads) in 1997 to $6 billion (4.6 million ads including 663,000 TV commercials) in 2016; DTC advertising of all kinds from $2.1 billion to $9.6 billion. FDA violation letters for misleading drug marketing fell from 156 to 11. The read copy is a university-hosted PDF.

Source

Schwartz LM, Woloshin S, JAMA 321(1):80-96 (Dartmouth Institute)

Date

January 2019

Quoted from

Abstract, Findings, JAMA 2019;321(1):80

Grade

Peer-reviewed

Document

https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.19320

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Read copy: https://csts.ua.edu/files/2025/06/jama_schwartz_2019_sc_180007.pdf. Confirm figures against the journal copy.

Exhibit 986 · GAO report

Prescription Drugs: Improvements Needed in FDA’s Oversight of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising, GAO-07-54

Drug company spending on DTC advertising—such as that on television and in magazines—of prescription drugs increased twice as fast from 1997 through 2005 as spending on promotion to physicians or on research and development.

Reports DTC spending of $4.2 billion in 2005, against $7.2 billion on promotion to physicians and $31.4 billion on R&D; that FDA reviews a small portion of DTC materials without documented criteria; that regulatory letters took an average of 4 months to issue from 2002 to 2005 against 2 weeks from 1997 to 2001; and that the 19 letters of 2004-2005 were issued an average of 8 months after first dissemination, by which time more than half of the materials had been discontinued. HHS disagreed with the recommendations.

Source

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Date

November 2006

Quoted from

Highlights, What GAO Found

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-07-54.pdf

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Exhibit id uses the report number GAO-07-54.

Exhibit 987 · Statute

Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, Pub. L. 110-85, Title IX, sec. 901(d)(3) and (4) (clear, conspicuous and neutral major statement; civil penalties for false or misleading DTC advertisements)

the major statement relating to side effects and contraindications shall be presented in a clear, conspicuous, and neutral manner.

Amends FDCA 502(n) to require that the major statement of side effects and contraindications in TV and radio drug ads be “presented in a clear, conspicuous, and neutral manner”; directs HHS to establish standards by regulation not later than 30 months after enactment; adds civil penalties up to $250,000 for a first false or misleading DTC advertisement in 3 years and $500,000 for each later one; adds a voluntary advisory-review fee program for TV ads (sec. 104).

Source

United States Congress

Date

27 September 2007

Quoted from

Sec. 901(d)(3)(A), amending FDCA 502(n)

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ85/html/PLAW-110publ85.htm

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Exhibit 988 · Regulation

Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertisements: Presentation of the Major Statement in a Clear, Conspicuous, and Neutral Manner in Advertisements in Television and Radio Format, final rule, 88 Fed. Reg. 80958

This rule is effective May 20, 2024. The compliance date of this rule is November 20, 2024.

Final rule implementing section 901(d)(3) of FDAAA. History section cites the proposed rule of 29 March 2010 (75 FR 15376). Effective 20 May 2024; compliance date 20 November 2024.

Source

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Date

21 November 2023

Quoted from

DATES

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/21/2023-25428/direct-to-consumer-prescription-drug-advertisements-presentation-of-the-major-statement-in-a-clear

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Exhibit 990 · Presidential memorandum

Memorandum on Addressing Misleading Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertisements

Over time, however, the FDA's requirements have permitted drug companies to include less information, particularly in broadcast advertising, and drug manufacturer advertising has skyrocketed in recent decades.

Directs the HHS Secretary to act to increase risk information required in DTC advertisements to the extent permitted by law and the FDA Commissioner to enforce the advertising provisions of the FDCA. The Daily Compilation notes an original was not available for verification.

Source

The White House (President Donald J. Trump)

Date

9 September 2025

Quoted from

Para. 2

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500906/html/DCPD-202500906.htm

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Exhibit 989 · Agency press release

FDA Launches Crackdown on Deceptive Drug Advertising (press release)

Today, the FDA is sending thousands of letters warning pharmaceutical companies to remove misleading ads and issuing approximately 100 cease-and-desist letters to companies with deceptive ads.

Announces thousands of letters to pharmaceutical companies, about 100 cease-and-desist letters, and rulemaking to remove the “adequate provision” option created in 1997. States that FDA once sent more than a hundred warning letters a year and that those to pharmaceutical companies fell to one in 2023 and zero in 2024. Quotes the Commissioner: drug companies spend up to 25% of their budget on advertising. Letter counts are FDA’s own and were not independently checked.

Source

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Date

9 September 2025

Quoted from

Para. 1

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-launches-crackdown-deceptive-drug-advertising

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Exhibit 994 · Research paper (not peer reviewed)

Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls, NBER Working Paper 23940

Consistent with theoretical predictions, we find that newspapers provide less coverage of recalls by their advertisers, especially the more severe ones.

Matches Kantar Media advertising spending by auto manufacturers in US newspapers to newspaper coverage of car safety recalls, 2000-2014. Reports less coverage of recalls by advertisers, especially severe ones; a one standard deviation increase in prior-two-year ad spending from a large advertiser reduces recall coverage at the intensive margin by 24% for the average newspaper. Published in Management Science 67(2):698-719 (2021), DOI 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3567 (bibliographic record only; article not opened).

Source

Beattie G, Durante R, Knight B, Sen A, National Bureau of Economic Research

Date

October 2017

Quoted from

Abstract

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.nber.org/papers/w23940.pdf

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Exhibit 995 · Peer-reviewed study

Do Ads Influence Editors? Advertising and Bias in the Financial Media, Quarterly Journal of Economics 121(1):197-227

We find that mutual fund recommendations are correlated with past advertising in three personal finance publications but not in two national newspapers.

Studies mutual fund recommendations in five publications, 1997-2002, controlling for fund characteristics, total family advertising and past mentions. Finds correlation between past advertising and recommendations in three personal finance publications and none in the two national newspapers (the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal); finds the cost to readers small.

Source

Reuter J, Zitzewitz E

Date

2006 (read: August 2005 draft)

Quoted from

Abstract, Aug. 2005 draft

Grade

Peer-reviewed

Document

https://www.jonreuter.com/research/ads.pdf

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Exhibit 993 · Research paper (not peer reviewed)

Pharmaceutical advertising biases media reports on drug safety (manuscript)

Newspapers are less likely to mention side effects of drugs produced by their advertising clients or to report on US Food and Drug Administration alerts regarding these drugs.

Combines Kantar Stradegy daily newspaper advertising by each drug’s manufacturer with 81,656 LexisNexis newspaper articles on drugs, 1999-2012, with drug-month and newspaper fixed effects. Reports that a newspaper receiving an additional $100,000 in advertising from a drug’s maker in the prior 14 days was 9% to 20% less likely to mention that drug’s side effects (baseline 10%), and 23% to 33% less likely to cover an FDA safety alert (baseline 62%); articles were less negative in tone. Journal of publication not found.

Source

Focke F, Niessen-Ruenzi A, Ruenzi S, University of Mannheim

Date

undated (file name DTCA-2019)

Quoted from

Abstract, p. 2

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/media/Lehrstuehle/bwl/Ruenzi/Forschung/Papers/DTCA-2019.pdf

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Manuscript as hosted by the authors’ department; publication venue and peer-review status unverified. Replace with the published article if one exists.

Exhibit 996 · Research report (not peer reviewed)

How News Happens: A Study of the News Ecosystem of One American City

Government, at least in this study, initiates most of the news.

Study of the 53 outlets producing local news in Baltimore for one week in July 2009 and six major storylines. Finds that eight in ten stories studied repeated or repackaged previously published information, that 95% of stories with new information came from traditional media, and that in the six storylines 63% of stories were initiated by government officials, led first by the police, and 14% by the press.

Source

Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism

Date

11 January 2010

Quoted from

Findings summary, report p. 4

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2010/01/PJBaltimoreStudy2010.pdf

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One city, one week, six storylines; the report states these limits.

Exhibit 951 · Agency order

Memorandum Opinion and Order, Applications of Comcast Corporation, General Electric Company and NBC Universal, Inc., FCC 11-4, MB Docket No. 10-56 (Appendix A, conditions)

C-NBCU shall continue NBCU’s policy of journalistic independence with respect to the news programming organizations of all NBCU networks and stations, and shall extend these policies to the potential influence of each of C-NBCU’s owners.

Approves the Comcast-NBCUniversal joint venture with conditions. Para. 204 records the applicants’ statement that since 1986 GE had ensured NBC’s news content was not influenced by GE’s non-media interests and that GE appointed an ombudsman. Appendix A, section XII makes journalistic independence a condition and extends it to the influence of each of C-NBCU’s owners.

Source

Federal Communications Commission

Date

18 January 2011 (adopted); 20 January 2011 (released)

Quoted from

App. A, sec. XII

Grade

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Document

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-11-4A1.pdf

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Exhibit 952 · Agency order

Memorandum Opinion and Order, Applications for Consent to the Transfer of Control of Paramount Global, FCC 25-43, MB Docket No. 24-275 (with Gomez dissent)

Finally, to promote transparency and increased accountability, Skydance will have in place, for a period of at least two years, an ombudsman who reports to the President of New Paramount, and who will receive and evaluate any complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS.

Commission order (2-1) granting the transfer to New Paramount. Records that the Center for American Rights asked for release of the complete Harris interview transcript and a viewpoint-diversity commitment and that CBS/Skydance did both (para. 35); records Skydance’s 22 July 2025 letter committing to viewpoint diversity, ending DEI initiatives and an ombudsman (paras. 58-59); leaves the news-distortion proceeding open (para. 35). Commissioner Gomez dissented. The order does not mention the Trump v. CBS settlement.

Source

Federal Communications Commission

Date

24 July 2025

Quoted from

Para. 59

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-25-43A1.pdf

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Exhibit 956 · News report

Paramount, President Trump reach $16 million settlement over “60 Minutes” lawsuit

Paramount also agreed that “60 Minutes” will release transcripts of interviews with presidential candidates in the future, “subject to redactions as required for legal or national security concerns,” the statement said.

CBS News, a Paramount unit, reports the company’s announcement that it will pay $16 million (allocated to Mr. Trump’s future presidential library and the plaintiffs’ fees and costs), that the settlement included no apology, and that “60 Minutes” will release transcripts of interviews with presidential candidates. States that FCC approval was necessary for the Skydance merger and had not been given.

Source

CBS News

Date

2 July 2025

Quoted from

Paragraph beginning “Paramount also agreed”

Grade

Reported

Document

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paramount-trump-60-minutes-lawsuit-settlement

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Reported. The outlet reporting is owned by the settling party. Replace with Paramount’s statement of 1 July 2025 and the stipulation of dismissal in the N.D. Tex. docket.

Exhibit 954 · Company press release

Company Objects to Talk Show Host’s Comments on Killing of Charlie Kirk (Nexstar press release)

will preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight’s show

Announces that Nexstar’s owned and partner ABC-affiliated stations will preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” beginning that night. The release gives Nexstar’s reasons in the voice of its broadcasting division president. It does not mention the FCC, a government request, or the pending TEGNA application.

Source

Nexstar Media Group, Inc.

Date

17 September 2025

Quoted from

Para. 1

Grade

Primary record

Document

https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-abc-affiliates-to-preempt-jimmy-kimmel-live-indefinitely-beginning-tonight/

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