The elected US President Donald Trump speaks to Brendan Carr, his intended election for the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, when he started the start of the sixth test flight of the Space Starship Rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.
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The Federal Communications Commission alerted Comcast Corp. That an examination of the diversity, justice and the inclusion efforts of the media giant will begin.
The FCC, the agency, which regulates the media and telecommunications industry, said in a letter that it would open the request in Comcast – offer broadband, mobile phone and cable TV services under the XFinity and NBCUversal brand Media arm that includes the company's broadcast and cable TV networks, streaming -app Peacock and Universal Film Studio and amusement parks.
The letter comes weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end the practices of the practices of US companies. The order calls on each federal authority to identify “up to nine potential investigations for civil compliance investigations” among listed companies as well as non -profit organizations and other institutions.
The FCC chairwoman Brendan Carr, a Republican who recently appointed by Trump, said that he had started his investigation with comcast and NBCuniversal because they “cover a number of sectors that were regulated by FCC”.
“We received an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission and will work with the FCC to answer your questions,” said a comcast spokesman in a statement on Wednesday. “For decades, our company has been based on a basis for integrity and respect for all of our employees and customers.”
Carr said in the letter sent to Comcast on Tuesday that he was “concerned that Comcast and NBCuniversal may promote unobtrusive forms of Dei in a way that does not meet the FCC regulations”.
The letter continues to say that “comcast provides on its website that the advertising for the” is a central value of our business “, and in public reports it says that comcast has an entire” dei -infrastructure “that the Annual DEI day contains[s]'' Dei training for company managers' and similar initiatives. “
Colleagues Medienriese Disney Changes its Dei programs according to a current report by Axios. In the meantime, the public broadcaster PBS reports on its office in Dei.
Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Disclosure: ComCast has NBCUNIERSAL, the parent company of CNBC.
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