#Media Consolidation
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🇺🇸 What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale
[USA]
Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion — as it continues to develop.
Related: #Streaming Wars, #Corporate Mergers, #Regulatory Scrutiny -
🇺🇸 Paramount’s dominant bid for Warner Bros. could have startling consequences
[USA]
'The consolidation of these media entities means Paramount would eventually own both CNN and CBS, allowing it to tilt news coverage to enhance its own media power,' writes an L.A. Times reader.
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🇺🇸 David Ellison Delivered. Now It’s Up to Makan Delrahim to Close the Warner Bros. Deal
[USA]
State attorneys general. Foreign approvals. Consumer lawsuits. Even without the Justice Department stepping in, Paramount still faces several roadblocks to completing its acquisition of Warner Bros.
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🇺🇸 Inside Skydance's 20-year rise to overtake Paramount, Warner Bros
[USA]
In its debut film, Skydance Productions released a special effects-laden World War I drama about fighter pilots with a starring role for an unknown actor, the company's founder, David Ellison.
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🇺🇸 Netflix Lost Warner. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
[USA]
It is entirely possible, analysts say, that Netflix will be better off by bailing from its $83 billion deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.
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🇺🇸 Paramount + WBD Vs. Coalition Of The Unwilling: CA AG Pulling Together Blue States Probe Of Mega-Merger
[USA]
The clock is ticking on the Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery mega-merger, literally, and things could get sticky and expensive if California’s Attorney General has his way. Tweeting the not-so quie...
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🇺🇸 'Shaken' CNN staffers say they fear what Paramount takeover would mean for newsroom
[USA]
CNN employees reacted with alarm after Netflix abruptly pulled out of the bidding war for Warner Bros.
Related: #Journalistic Freedom, #Corporate Influence on News, #Political Impact on Media, #Employee Concerns & Morale -
🇺🇸 The concerns and implications of Paramount's Warner Bros. buyout
[USA]
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery reportedly signed an agreement on a $110 billion deal. The merger would make one of the largest media empires in the world. Paramount could now control two key mov...
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🇺🇸 Brooks and Capehart on the Senate primaries in Texas
[USA]
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the Republican and Democratic Senate primaries in Texas, the reaction to Pres...
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🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger
[USA]
Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance's merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media company that will fold WBD's studio, linear...
Related: #Corporate Acquisitions, #Streaming Wars -
🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery signs merger agreement with Paramount Skydance
[USA]
Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday formally signed an agreement to be acquired by Paramount Skydance, the two companies announced, setting the stage for one of the most consequential media mergers in re...
Related: #Corporate Bidding War, #Hollywood Mergers, #Regulatory Scrutiny -
🇺🇸 CNN’s Jake Tapper Breaks News of Paramount Buying Network’s Parent Company WBD Live on Air: ‘It Affects Everybody I’m Looking at Right Now in the Studio’
[USA]
CNN’s Jake Tapper wound up having to break some news on Thursday’s “The Lead” that affects his own network. After a commercial break, the anchor came back on air and announced to viewers – and the cre...
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🇺🇸 California Attorney General Plants Flag on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: “Not a Done Deal”
[USA]
If the Justice Department and foreign regulators approves the deal, it'll be up to state attorneys general to challenge the merger.
Related: #Regulatory Scrutiny, #Corporate Mergers -
🇺🇸 Adam Schiff Says Paramount-WBD Deal Should Be Subject To “Highest Levels Of Scrutiny” And “Free From White House Political Influence”
[USA]
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) weighed in on Paramount apparent victory in the battle over Warner Bros., after Netflix dropped out of a bidding war for the assets. “What was true for Netflix is still true no...
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🇺🇸 Ted Went All That Way For Nuthin’: Netflix Lost WB While Sarandos Was Pitching Deal At The White House
[USA]
Ted Sarandos’s White House visit today proved an exercise in real-time realpolitik for the Netflix co-CEO as Paramount won the multibillion-dollar bid for Warner Bros Discovery. Usually Sarandos is su...
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🇺🇸 Elizabeth Warren Calls Paramount-WBD Deal An “Antitrust Disaster,” Questions Trump Influence
[USA]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) continued her criticisms of Paramount-Skydance as it is poised to win the bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery, while she questioned the influence of the Trump White House o...
Related: #Antitrust, #Political Influence, #Corporate Power -
🇺🇸 Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, clearing path for Paramount takeover
[USA]
On Thursday, after Warner's board announced that Skydance-owned Paramount's offer was superior to the agreement it had previously struck with Netflix, the streaming giant said the new price it would h...
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🇺🇸 With Paramount As A Potential New Owner, CNN CEO Mark Thompson Urges Employees, “Don’t Jump To Conclusions About The Future”
[USA]
With Paramount emerging as the winning bidder for a potential deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, one of its prizes would be CNN. That has triggered a new level of consternation at the network, not just ...
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🇺🇸 Netflix backs out of bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, giving studios, HBO, and CNN to Ellison-owned Paramount
[USA]
In a one-two punch of centibillion-dollar offers, the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is over. David Ellison-owned Paramount will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Netflix has lost.
Related: #Corporate Bidding Wars, #Tech-Media Convergence -
🇺🇸 Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win
[USA]
It's a stunning twist.
Related: #Corporate Acquisitions, #Streaming Industry, #Financial Strategy -
🇺🇸 Slate Financier Adds To WBD Sale Concerns Voiced By James Cameron & Mark Ruffalo – Guest Column
[USA]
Editor’s Note: In a widely read letter to Mike Lee, the U.S. Senate Chairman on Antritrust, Competitive Policy and Consumer Rights, James Cameron argued that “a sale of Warner Bros Discovery to Netfli...
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🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery Deems Paramount’s $111 Billion Bid ‘Superior’
[USA]
Netflix now has four business days to decide whether it wants to counter Paramount’s offer.
Related: #Corporate Bidding War, #Streaming Competition -
🇺🇸 Nexstar CEO Salutes Donald Trump For Backing Tegna Merger, Says Mega-Deal Is On Track To Close By June
[USA]
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook told Wall Street analysts that the company’s executives “appreciate the support” of President Trump of the pending $6.2 billion merger with Tegna. Speaking on the company’s four...
Related: #Political Influence, #Corporate Mergers -
🇺🇸 KTLA Anchor, Meteorologists Hit By Nexstar Layoffs In Multiple Cities As TV Giant Seeks Merger
[USA]
In yet another shakeup in the local TV news space, a number of longtime anchors at stations in Los Angeles and Chicago have been laid off. The cuts come as the stations’ corporate parent, Nexstar Medi...
Related: #Local News Industry, #Corporate Restructuring -
🇺🇸 France’s Canal+ Group Acquires Italy’s Lucky Red in Latest European Consolidation Move
[USA]
France’s Canal+ Group, has acquired a 51% majority stake in prominent Italian distribution and production company Lucky Red, marking the latest consolidation move in Europe. Lucky Red, which is a lead...
Related: #European Film Industry, #Business Strategy -
🇺🇸 BBC Studios Chiefs on Mega-Mergers, Own M&A, Trump Tariffs, U.S. Streaming Growth, and the ‘Bluey’ Movie
[USA]
During the annual BBC Studios Showcase in London, CEO Tom Fussell and Zai Bennett, the company's production head, also discussed growth, diversification, microdramas, 'Top Gear,' and more.
Related: #Streaming Growth, #Content Strategy, #Market Challenges -
🇺🇸 Ted Sarandos Tells BBC Show That James Cameron’s Disapproval Of Netflix-Warner Deal Is “Quite Confusing” & Paramount Offer Will Shrink Film Biz
[USA]
Ted Sarandos has pushed back again on comments by James Cameron that Netflix’s planned acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery would be “disastrous for the theatrical motion picture business”, saying...
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🇺🇸 Trump demands Netflix fire Susan Rice as DOJ probes Warner deal
[USA]
Rice argued during a podcast last week that "it is not going to end well" for corporations, news organizations, and law firms that "bent the knee" to Trump.
Related: #Political Pressure, #Corporate Accountability - 🇺🇸 Trump targets Netflix board amid $108B bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery [USA] Related: #Corporate Politics, #Political Influence in Business
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🇺🇸 Mark Ruffalo Questions James Cameron’s Disapproval of Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal, Support of Paramount
[USA]
"The next question to Mr Cameron should be this… 'Are you also against the monopolization that a Paramount acquisition would create? Or is it just that of Netflix?'" the 'Task' actor wrote on Saturday...
Related: #Theatrical vs. Streaming, #Industry Debate