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Report: Netflix in Talks To Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (UPDATE: Paramount to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery)

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I'll be surprised if the Netflix deal gets completed. Paramount still wants the entirety of WBD but I'm guessing they have to settle for the leftover cable networks.

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Everyone happy about DC franchise and all they did buy only streaming services and studio assets

tyrannical bastard Station Group CEO

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Whoever ends up with Warner Brothers hopefully does a better job managing their content then Warner Brothers ever did. 

 

Too many "tax write-offs" and funny business of pulling their own content from their streaming services.  And historically, Warner Brothers has been the stingiest in terms of releasing their archived content.

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Note that the still-planned spinoff of the cable networks (minus HBO) and Discovery+ will happen first. According to the Hollywood Reporter:

 

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WBD shareholders will receive $23.25 in cash and $4.50 in shares of Netflix common stock for each share of WBD common stock, with the linear networks business, including CNN, TNT HGTV and Discovery+ still set to be spun out. That move is now expected in the third quarter of 2026.

 

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Netflix only wanted the WB library content and movie studio I don't think this will be approved in my opinion by the government and in international markets as well. I think WBD just wanted a knight & shining armor to buy part of them so that Skydance/Paramount didn't get everything. I don't think it makes Netflix's too big for buying WB studios and library content in my opinion I don't see the red flags in this deal.

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Why can't companies just respect the fact that Netflix won fair and square.

 

Paramount and Trump are going to be trouble for the Warners.

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2 hours ago, TVLurker said:

Why can't companies just respect the fact that Netflix won fair and square.

 

Paramount and Trump are going to be trouble for the Warners.

 

Ellison already owns a large Hollywood studio.  If this is about owning/controlling CNN, he can bid on the cable side of the business. Considering the mess that is now CBS News since he took over, that probably is not a positive thing.  Never mind that between both Paramount and WBD, 80% or more of the cable channels are pure crap with low viewership.

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18 minutes ago, NowBergen said:

 

Ellison already owns a large Hollywood studio.  If this is about owning/controlling CNN, he can bid on the cable side of the business. Considering the mess that is now CBS News since he took over, that probably is not a positive thing.  Never mind that between both Paramount and WBD, 80% or more of the cable channels are pure crap with low viewership.

 

That's not the point though. Despite Trump's approach to businesses (meaning deregulation), he is going to actively attempt to sabotage the Netflix/WB merger.

 

Like come on, make up your mind Trump.

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19 hours ago, NowBergen said:

 

Ellison already owns a large Hollywood studio.  If this is about owning/controlling CNN, he can bid on the cable side of the business. Considering the mess that is now CBS News since he took over, that probably is not a positive thing.  Never mind that between both Paramount and WBD, 80% or more of the cable channels are pure crap with low viewership.

could they just get the cable channels since they aren't part of the deal?

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And being reported in the news this morning (December 17), WBD has rejected the Paramount Skydance deal.

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34 minutes ago, AmericanErrorist said:

Paramount has a rebuttal.

If Ellison is so committed to linear broadcasting as he states, then let him buy the Discovery side of the business and he can add more little watched crap cable channels to all his own crap cable channels.  Only downside, he would control CNN and turn it into another trump propaganda channel.

mre29 Station Group CEO

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4 hours ago, NowBergen said:

If Ellison is so committed to linear broadcasting as he states, then let him buy the Discovery side of the business and he can add more little watched crap cable channels to all his own crap cable channels.  Only downside, he would control CNN and turn it into another trump propaganda channel.

 

This brings up a good question:  If someone wanted to buy a subset (read: one or more, but not all) of the cable channels, would WBD (or Discovery post-split) be open to that?

 

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TVLurker Managing Editor

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I'm a bit bummed out. Regardless of the amount of no's that Warner Bros. gave to Paramount, Paramount won because they threw more money. 

 

So much for a fair bidding process 

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How many cable channels will Paramount own in the end? Hopefully, it'll be forced to divest some of them...especially CNN.

 

 

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31 minutes ago, mre29 said:

How many cable channels will Paramount own in the end? Hopefully, it'll be forced to divest some of them...especially CNN.

 

 

I doubt that this administration would force Skydance to divest cable channels. They'd probably be in favor of Skydance keeping everything.

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4 hours ago, TVLurker said:

I doubt that this administration would force Skydance to divest cable channels. They'd probably be in favor of Skydance keeping everything.

...but their creditors might. This company is about to take on a breathtaking amount of debt once the financing and WBD's existing debt is added to what Skydance already owes from buying Paramount. Expect a lot of things to be cast off in the coming years; including either the Paramount or Warner lots, parts of their library, some cable channels, maybe even broadcast properties. 

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