{"id":1258,"date":"2026-09-18T06:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/us-fcc-approves-foreign-investment-in-paramount-warner-merger-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T22:02:02","slug":"us-fcc-approves-foreign-investment-in-paramount-warner-merger-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/us-fcc-approves-foreign-investment-in-paramount-warner-merger-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"US FCC approves foreign investment in Paramount Warner merger deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) &#8211; The Federal Communications Commission \u200con Thursday said it \u200capproved a Paramount Skydance request \u200bfor foreign investments backing its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery despite a \u200cgroup of \u2060senators raising concerns.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->In a decision released by \u2060the FCC&#8217;s media bureau, the commission placed \u200blimits on \u200bthe \u200bextent of foreign \u200cinvestment in the deal and said foreign investors can have no voting stock and &#8220;will not have \u200cany influence, direction, \u200bor control \u200bover \u200bor provide any commentary \u200cor guidance on \u200bParamount&#8217;s \u200bcontent decisions, company management,&#8221; or access to non-public \u200bdata \u200con U.S. citizens.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->(Reporting by \u200bDavid Shepardson; Editing by \u200bChris Reese)<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) &#8211; The Federal Communications Commission \u200con Thursday said it \u200capproved a Paramount Skydance request \u200bfor foreign investments backing its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery despite a \u200cgroup of \u2060senators raising concerns. In a decision released by \u2060the FCC&#8217;s media bureau, the commission placed \u200blimits on \u200bthe \u200bextent of foreign \u200cinvestment in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}