{"id":1014223,"date":"2026-06-13T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014223"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:53:11","slug":"us-justice-department-clears-paramounts-acquisition-of-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/13\/us-justice-department-clears-paramounts-acquisition-of-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"US Justice Department clears Paramount&#8217;s acquisition of Warner Bros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Justice Department&#8217;s Antitrust Division said it has cleared Paramount Skydance Corp&#8217;s planned $110 billion \u200cacquisition of Warner \u2060Bros. Discovery. Department \u2060of Justice officials said in a statement released late on Friday that it determined the transaction did not pose a threat to competition in streaming, the traditional television business or film. <\/p>\n<p>The clearance gives Paramount another regulatory green light to point to as it seeks to ward off a potential challenge to the deal by states. In April, \u2060Paramount also \u200casked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve foreign investments backing the acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Justice Department&#8217;s Antitrust Division said it has cleared Paramount Skydance Corp&#8217;s planned $110 billion \u200cacquisition of Warner \u2060Bros. Discovery. Department \u2060of Justice officials said in a statement released late on Friday that it determined the transaction did not pose a threat to competition in streaming, the traditional television business or film. The clearance gives Paramount another regulatory green light to point to as it seeks to ward off a potential challenge to the deal by states. In April, \u2060Paramount also \u200casked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve foreign investments backing the acquisition.<\/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-1014223","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\/1014223","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=1014223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014225,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014223\/revisions\/1014225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}