The hit is heading towards Walt Disney Co., but not the way the media empire probably likes.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Kerr announcement On Friday, social media platform X, ABC's parent Disney launched an investigation into potential violations of FCC's Equal Employment Opportunity Regulation through the company's efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
“For decades, Disney focused on box office revenue and programming success, but then something changed,” Kerr wrote in a letter saying he had posted online to Disney. “Disney is currently caught up in a round of controversy over DEI policies.”
Walt Disney has received Carr's letter and said it will cooperate.
“We are reviewing the Federal Communications Commission letter and looking forward to answering questions with the committee,” a Disney spokesperson told Hill.
Last month, the FCC launched a similar investigation into Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, over DEI concerns.
The letters Carr sent to both companies note that the FCC wants to ensure that companies are not “promoting strange forms of discrimination.”
Since President Trump took office in January, his administration has been curbing Dei's efforts, which have been inflated with governments and private companies in recent years. He signed an executive order to terminate the DEI program across federal agencies from recipients, including universities that promote DEIs, and to withdraw federal funds.
In his letter to Disney, Kerr wrote that the FCC's executive branch would follow up with the company.
“In recent years, Disney has made DEI an important priority for the company's business, and has incorporated explicit race and gender-based standards throughout its business,” he wrote. “Your company has recently made some changes to the brand of certain IT efforts, but it's not clear that the basic policy has been changed in a basic way or that it complies with relevant FCC regulations.”
In particular, Disney is facing a conservative backlash about what is perceived as a company's “awakening” priorities in filmmaking and other efforts. Recent Remakes This month, the “Snow White and Seven Dwarf” opened in a disappointment. Box office revenue.
