{"id":1003068,"date":"2026-04-15T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003068"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:18:58","slug":"paramount-warner-bros-deal-likely-to-face-uk-antitrust-probe-as-watchdog-eyes-phase-1-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/paramount-warner-bros-deal-likely-to-face-uk-antitrust-probe-as-watchdog-eyes-phase-1-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount\u2013Warner Bros deal likely to face UK antitrust probe as watchdog eyes Phase 1 review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s antitrust watchdog is expected to launch an investigation into Paramount Skydance&#8217;s planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery in &#8220;the coming weeks,&#8221; a spokesperson said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The film and TV industries \u200ccontribute billions \u2060to \u2060our economy, so it&#8217;s important we assess whether deals between studios may harm competition &#8230; We expect to launch our phase 1 investigation in the coming weeks,&#8221; a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) spokesperson said in an emailed \u2060statement to \u200cReuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s antitrust watchdog is expected to launch an investigation into Paramount Skydance&#8217;s planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery in &#8220;the coming weeks,&#8221; a spokesperson said on Monday. &#8220;The film and TV industries \u200ccontribute billions \u2060to \u2060our economy, so it&#8217;s important we assess whether deals between studios may harm competition &#8230; We expect to launch our phase 1 investigation in the coming weeks,&#8221; a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) spokesperson said in an emailed \u2060statement to \u200cReuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}