The FCC approved the transfer of CBS licenses to Skydance's ownership group, paving the way to the merger of Skydance and Paramount.

Skydance’s general counsel, Stephanie Kyoko McKinnon, noted that the FCC, in evaluating Comcast’s proposed acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011, found that an ombudsman was a “mechanism effective in preventing editorial bias in the operation of the NBC broadcast network.”