{"id":653243,"date":"2025-02-12T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fcc-targets-comcast-nbcuniversal-with-dei-programs-probe\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:25:17","slug":"fcc-targets-comcast-nbcuniversal-with-dei-programs-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fcc-targets-comcast-nbcuniversal-with-dei-programs-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"#FCC Targets Comcast, NBCUniversal With DEI Programs Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThe Trump administration\u2019s campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the media<\/a> and entertainment sector has turned its attention on Comcast.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe media conglomerate has confirmed that Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has notified Comcast his agency is to investigate the company\u2019s DEI practices. \u201cWe have received an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission and will be cooperating with the FCC to answer their questions,\u201d a Comcast spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> on Wednesday in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tComcast on its corporate website says <\/a>of its DEI initiatives: \u201cWe believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is a more innovative and successful one. Across our workforce, products, and content, we embrace diversity of background, perspective, culture, and experience, and together with our partners, we are working to fight injustice against any race, ethnicity, gender or sexual identity, disability, or veteran status.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCarr\u2019s letter<\/a> to Comcast was earlier reported by News<\/a>max<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe pressure from the U.S. government to end diversity programs has prompted several companies to retreat from efforts to boost inclusion from underrepresented communities in their ranks.\u00a0To fall into line with a new FCC policy to rein in media and entertainment companies, Disney in a regulatory filing said it has scrubbed references to its \u201cReimagine Tomorrow\u201d initiative, which launched in 2021 with the purpose of amplifying underrepresented voices.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd PBS, which faces its own investigation by the FCC, has closed its DEI office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.\u00a0\u201cIn order to best ensure we are in compliance with the President\u2019s executive order around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion we have closed our DEI office. The staff members who served in that office are leaving PBS,\u201d read a statement from a PBS rep on Feb. 10. <\/p>\n

\n\tFCC chair Carr, a Trump app<\/a>ointee, has said he will investigate PBS and NPR, which both receive government funding, to see if government rules around the naming of financial sponsors on the air has been violated.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd in January, a day after Trump\u2019s executive order titled \u201cEnding Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,\u201d Carr directed the FCC to end its own DEI effort. \u201cPromoting invidious forms of discrimination runs contrary to the Communications Act and deprives Americans of their rights to fair and equal treatment under the law. It also represents a wasteful expenditure of taxpayer resources,\u201d he wrote<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump administration\u2019s campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the media and entertainment sector has turned its attention on Comcast. The media conglomerate has confirmed that Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has notified Comcast his agency is to investigate the company\u2019s DEI practices. \u201cWe have received an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2185634379.jpg?w=1440&h=810&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[72125],"class_list":["post-653243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-comcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}