{"id":1004862,"date":"2026-04-25T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004862"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:41:18","slug":"warner-bros-shareholders-approve-paramounts-81-billion-takeover-of-the-hollywood-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/warner-bros-shareholders-approve-paramounts-81-billion-takeover-of-the-hollywood-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros shareholders approve Paramount&#8217;s $81 billion takeover of the Hollywood giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s shareholders approved an $81 billion sale of the company to Skydance-owned Paramount on Thursday, propelling a mega merger that could vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape closer to the finish line. <\/p>\n<p>In a vote held on Thursday, the vast majority of Warner shareholders approved of the deal, per a preliminary count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s shareholders approved an $81 billion sale of the company to Skydance-owned Paramount on Thursday, propelling a mega merger that could vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape closer to the finish line. In a vote held on Thursday, the vast majority of Warner shareholders approved of the deal, per a preliminary count.<\/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-1004862","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\/1004862","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=1004862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004895,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004862\/revisions\/1004895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}