The company has a merger with Skydance pending before the Federal Communications Commission, whose chief has criticized diversity, equity and inclusion hiring programs.

Paramount, the parent company of BET, MTV and the Paramount film studio, said on Wednesday that it was rethinking its approach to diversity, equity and inclusion amid a broader backlash toward D.E.I. policies driven by the Trump administration.

In a note to employees obtained by The New York Times, Paramount’s co-chief executives said they were making changes to the company’s D.E.I. policies to conform to efforts by the Trump administration to eliminate diversity programs in the federal government and the private sector.

The administration’s policies, the note said, “require changes in the way the company approaches inclusion moving forward.”

Paramount is ending its practices of using aspirational hiring goals related to race, ethnicity, sex or gender, said the memo, which was sent by the co-chief executives Brian Robbins, George Cheeks and

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