FCC Targets Comcast, NBCuniversal and DEI program detectors

The Trump administration’s campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the media and entertainment sectors has focused on Comcast.

Media Conglomerate has confirmed that Federal Communications Chairman Brendan Carr has notified Comcast's agency to investigate the company's DEI practices. A Comcast spokesman told Hollywood Reporter Wednesday in a statement.

Comcast said its DEI program on its company website: “We believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive company is a more innovative and successful company in our workforce, products and content In the process, we all embrace diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, cultures and experiences, and together with our partners, we are working to resist any injustice of race, race, gender or gender identity, disability or veteran status.”

Carl's letter to Comcast was reported earlier newsmax.

The U.S. government pressure on the ultimate diversification plan has prompted several companies to retreat from their efforts to increase the joining of underrepresented communities. Disney said in a regulatory filing that Disney has incorporated a consistency between media and entertainment companies into a new FCC policy that says it has scrubbed references to its “reimagine tomorrow” initiative, which is planned in 2021 Initiated in 2018, the purpose was to amplify underrepresented voices.

PBS and PBS facing the FCC's own investigation have closed the DEI office to comply with President Donald Trump's recent executive order. “To best ensure we comply with the President’s executive orders around diversity, equity and inclusion, we have closed the DEI office. Staff serving in that office will leave PBS.” On February 10, a copy of PBS representatives statement.

Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Carr said he would investigate PBS and NPRs that both parties received government funds to see if the government involves rules for naming financial sponsors in the air.

In January, the day after Trump's executive order “ends radical and wasteful administration DEI programs and preferences,” Carr directed the FCC to end his own DEI efforts. “Promoting incredible forms of discrimination is contrary to the Communications Act and deprives Americans of the right to receive fair and equal treatment under the law. It also represents wasted expenditures on taxpayer resources,” he wrote in a statement.