{"id":16375,"date":"2025-03-29T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/fcc-is-investigating-disney-and-abc-for-dei-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:00:27","slug":"fcc-is-investigating-disney-and-abc-for-dei-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/fcc-is-investigating-disney-and-abc-for-dei-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC is investigating Disney and ABC for DEI initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-graf\">The Federal Communications Commission has alerted\u00a0the\u00a0Walt Disney Company\u00a0and its ABC unit that it will begin an investigation into the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the media giant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">The FCC, the agency that regulates the media and telecommunications industry, said in\u00a0a letter\u00a0dated Friday that it wants to \u201censure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">\u201cWe are reviewing the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s letter, and we look forward to engaging with the commission to answer its questions,\u201d a Disney spokesperson told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who was recently\u00a0appointed\u00a0by\u00a0President Donald Trump, began a similar investigation into\u00a0Comcast\u00a0and NBCUniversal in early February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">The inquiry comes after Trump\u00a0signed\u00a0an executive order looking to end DEI practices at U.S. corporations in January. The order calls for each federal agency to \u201cidentify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations\u201d among publicly traded companies, as well as nonprofits and other institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">\u201cFor decades, Disney focused on churning out box office and programming successes,\u201d Carr wrote in the letter to CEO\u00a0Bob Iger. \u201cBut then something changed. Disney has now been embroiled in rounds of controversy surrounding its DEI policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">An FCC spokesperson didn\u2019t comment beyond the letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark body-graf\"><em>Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal and\u00a0NBC News. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission has alerted\u00a0the\u00a0Walt Disney Company\u00a0and its ABC unit that it will begin an investigation into the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the media giant. The FCC, the agency that regulates the media and telecommunications industry, said in\u00a0a letter\u00a0dated Friday that it wants to \u201censure that Disney and ABC have not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}