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Now hopping on in to the latest is a lot going on today, guys. Now, first of all, we've been hearing

a lot about this whole Paramount Skydance merger

and Donald Trump and, you know, his warm and not so warm feeling towards some media outlets

and media personalities. And we've been hearing about it because our president himself,

his kids, they let you know when they don't like something. They don't care what outlet it is, what platform it is, who's the talking head. They call it out. And this comes a week after the Stephen Colbert show, the late show, with Stephen Colbert was canceled. Mind you, ratings are flying out the roof. Like, there's no issues with that show that would prompt any cancellation

for the most, like, the most common person who doesn't understand TV ratings, doesn't watch

the show, just understands how big the platform is and who Stephen Colbert is and the fact that

the ratings are doing well can tell you that one plus one does not equal to here. So people have been having a

conversation about this merger because people feel like the fact that this merger late

yesterday was announced. So people were talking about it today. This merger has actually

been approved. It's an $8 billion merger between Paramount Skydance. and this basically means that CBS broadcast television network,

Paramount Pictures, and the Nickelodeon channel will be included in the deal.

Now, Brendan Carr, who is a chairman of the FCC, so the FCC is the Federal Communications

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