#streaming-consolidation

#streaming-consolidation

Netflix and Paramount are vying for Warner Bros., which has already had enough suitors - and failed marriages - to rival Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor. On today's podcast, we look at the streaming TV chessboard to make sense of what those two massive players bring to the table for Warner Bros. What would a combined ad offering look like for each deal?

Jimmy Kimmel lives on. Now Disney has a new headache: the YouTube TV blackout. But Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors during the company's most recent earnings call on Thursday morning that Disney is "working tirelessly" to strike a deal that will end the ongoing carriage dispute that's led to more 20 of its channels going dark on YouTube TV. Disney's CFO, Hugh Johnston, however, was a bit less optimistic: "These discussions could go for a little while," he said.

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.