{"id":1015326,"date":"2026-06-18T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015326"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:58:01","slug":"chinese-regulators-clear-paramount-skydance-warner-bros-discovery-merger-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/chinese-regulators-clear-paramount-skydance-warner-bros-discovery-merger-source-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese regulators clear Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros Discovery merger, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese regulators have cleared the $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros \u200cDiscovery, according \u2060to \u2060a source familiar with the decision. <\/p>\n<p>The antitrust ruling comes on the heels of similar approvals from the U.S. Department of Justice, and a number of other countries, including \u2060Australia, Germany, \u200cFrance and Saudi Arabia. China, where both Paramount and Warner \u2060Bros Discovery release films, also needed to sign off on the deal. <\/p>\n<p>The European Union has yet to weigh in on the combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese regulators have cleared the $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros \u200cDiscovery, according \u2060to \u2060a source familiar with the decision. The antitrust ruling comes on the heels of similar approvals from the U.S. Department of Justice, and a number of other countries, including \u2060Australia, Germany, \u200cFrance and Saudi Arabia. China, where both Paramount and Warner \u2060Bros Discovery release films, also needed to sign off on the deal. The European Union has yet to weigh in on the combination.<\/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-1015326","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\/1015326","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=1015326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015348,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015326\/revisions\/1015348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}