{"id":1004747,"date":"2026-04-25T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004747"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:51:57","slug":"warner-bros-shareholders-to-vote-on-paramounts-81-billion-takeover-of-the-hollywood-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/warner-bros-shareholders-to-vote-on-paramounts-81-billion-takeover-of-the-hollywood-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros shareholders to vote on Paramount&#8217;s $81 billion takeover of the Hollywood giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros Discovery shareholders are set to vote Thursday on the company&#8217;s proposed $81 billion sale to Skydance-owned Paramount, in a mega merger that could vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape. <\/p>\n<p>Paramount wants to buy all of Warner. That means HBO Max, cult-favourite titles like &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; and CNN could soon find themselves under the same roof as Paramount&#8217;s CBS, &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; and the Paramount+ streaming service. And a greenlight from shareholders would bring the acquisition closer to the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros Discovery shareholders are set to vote Thursday on the company&#8217;s proposed $81 billion sale to Skydance-owned Paramount, in a mega merger that could vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape. Paramount wants to buy all of Warner. That means HBO Max, cult-favourite titles like &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; and CNN could soon find themselves under the same roof as Paramount&#8217;s CBS, &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; and the Paramount+ streaming service. And a greenlight from shareholders would bring the acquisition closer to the finish line.<\/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-1004747","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\/1004747","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=1004747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004768,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004747\/revisions\/1004768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}