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fromPoynter
4 days agoA bidding war for one of America's biggest media companies is colliding with Trump-era power - Poynter
Paramount launched a hostile $30-per-share all-cash bid valuing Warner Bros. Discovery at just over $108 billion, directly challenging Netflix’s earlier $83 billion offer.
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fromFast Company
5 days agoParamount Skydance launches a hostile takeover bid in last-ditch effort to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount Skydance launched a hostile takeover bid to block Netflix's planned $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., escalating a multi-billion media acquisition battle.
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fromFortune
1 week agoTop analyst says Netflix's $72 billion bet on Warner Bros. isn't about the 'Death of Hollywood' at all. It's really about Google | Fortune
Netflix's $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. is a strategic bet on AI, chips, and control of premium video for training next-generation generative models.
fromBusiness Insider
1 week agoWhy Netflix says its Warner Bros. deal won't be a failure like other media mega-mergers before it
It's true. Historically, many of these mergers haven't worked. A lot of these failures were because the companies doing the a didn't understand the entertainment industry,
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month agoEx-60 Minutes Producer Reveals Blunt Reply to Bosses' Demand After Kamala Harris Interview
Paramount pressured 60 Minutes to apologize over a Kamala Harris interview amid a Skydance merger, prompting executive Bill Owens to resign over editorial interference.
fromAdExchanger
2 months agoAlways Be Closing; 'Sadsung' Fridges | AdExchanger
During an Air Force One press briefing on Thursday, President Trump criticized network evening shows, complaining that "all they do is hit Trump. They're licensed. They're not allowed to do that." And back in July, Trump responded to Colbert's cancellation by saying that Kimmel was next. Not for nothing, but it was also in July when Paramount narrowly won approval from the FCC for its now-completed merger with Skydance.
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US politics
fromFortune
2 months agoTrump suggests a TikTok deal is close as he reveals crunch talks with Xi Jinping while the Ellisons wait in the wings | Fortune
U.S. and Chinese officials reached a deal enabling TikTok's sale to American interests, potentially involving Larry Ellison and the Ellison family's expanding media acquisitions.
fromVulture
3 months agoWhat Paramount Buying Warner Bros. Could Mean for Hollywood
Paramount Skydance, backed by the family of CEO David Ellison, is getting ready to make a bid to take over all of Warner Bros. Discovery before the two companies can go through with their plan to split, per a new report from The Wall Street Journal. If such a deal happens, it would put networks as diverse as CBS, CNN, TCM, and MTV under one roof and result in the combination of two historic Hollywood studios, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.
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