Trump's FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, has notified CEO Bob Iger that he's investigating Disney and ABC's DEI programs.

FCC chair Brendan Carr, after publicly musing that he might go after Disney over its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, made it official: The agency has opened a probe into DEI practices at Disney and ABC. It’s the latest warning shot from Carr against media companies in the Trump administration’s war against DEI.

In that letter, Carr accused Disney’s broadcast network ABC of “attempting to extract onerous financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations under the threat of terminating long-held affiliations, which could result in blackouts and other harms to local consumers of broadcast news and content.”

The agency regulates eight ABC television stations owned by Disney, which hold FCC-issued licenses. This article, FCC Chair Brendan Carr targets Disney’s DEI practices, was first published at The Desk.

As reported by the New York Times and CNBC, FCC chair Brendan Carr has followed up on a previous threat against Disney in a new letter (pdf). Now he says its enforcement bureau will investigate to see if it’s “violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.

Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote that while Disney has walked back its DEI programs, ‘it is not clear that the underlying policies have changed.’

The FCC chair said mergers and acquisitions could face roadblocks from the federal agency if they do not reverse their DEI programs.

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into hiring practices at Disney and ABC to ensure neither is violating equal employment opportunity regulations through "DEI discrimination.

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt Disney Co. and its broadcast subsidiary ABC over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Chairman