Skydance CEO David Ellison told the FCC he wants “American storytelling” at Paramount while touting a new, “unbiased” editorial direction for CBS News.

More than a year after Skydance Media and its partners clinched a deal with Shari Redstone and Paramount Global to merge the companies, the FCC has yet to act on an application to approve the transfer of CBS licenses to the new ownership.

As the Paramount-Skydance merger moves along, incoming execs Jeff Shell and David Ellison turn their attention to flagship property “South Park.”

David Rhodes, Sky News executive chairman and former CBS News head, is in talks to run CBS News again if the Skydance acquisition of the broadcaster's owner Paramount Global closes, digital news website Puck reported on Friday.

The media industry is on the precipice of another landmark deal as Paramount Global and Skydance Media inch closer toward their highly

A second 90-day extension of Paramount proposed sale to David Ellison’s Skydance automatically triggered today as per the deal agreement.

On Monday July 7, representatives for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its Hollywood Local 399 and the conservative public interest group the Center for American Rights met with staff of the Federal Communications Commission to discuss a deal important to both of them: The Skydance -Paramount merger.