Exhibit 951

Memorandum Opinion and Order, Applications of Comcast Corporation, General Electric Company and NBC Universal, Inc., FCC 11-4, MB Docket No. 10-56 (Appendix A, conditions)

Exhibit 951 · Agency order

Memorandum Opinion and Order, Applications of Comcast Corporation, General Electric Company and NBC Universal, Inc., FCC 11-4, MB Docket No. 10-56 (Appendix A, conditions)

C-NBCU shall continue NBCU’s policy of journalistic independence with respect to the news programming organizations of all NBCU networks and stations, and shall extend these policies to the potential influence of each of C-NBCU’s owners.

Approves the Comcast-NBCUniversal joint venture with conditions. Para. 204 records the applicants’ statement that since 1986 GE had ensured NBC’s news content was not influenced by GE’s non-media interests and that GE appointed an ombudsman. Appendix A, section XII makes journalistic independence a condition and extends it to the influence of each of C-NBCU’s owners.

Source: Federal Communications Commission
Date: 18 January 2011 (adopted); 20 January 2011 (released)
Quoted from: App. A, sec. XII
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-11-4A1.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding INF-1.13: Primary record The FCC's 2011 order approving Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal made a journalistic-independence policy, extended to the influence of each of Comcast-NBCU's owners, a condition of approval. The FCC's 2025 order approving the transfer of Paramount to Skydance recites Skydance's commitments to an ombudsman for CBS for at least two years and to viewpoint diversity, and records that CBS/Skydance released the complete interview transcript that a petitioner had requested.