{"id":1020669,"date":"2026-07-14T08:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020669"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:47:23","slug":"california-11-states-suing-to-block-paramounts-110-billion-warner-bros-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/california-11-states-suing-to-block-paramounts-110-billion-warner-bros-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"California, 11 states suing to block Paramount&#8217;s $110 billion Warner Bros deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California and 11 states are suing to block Paramount&#8217;s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the deal would lessen competition in film distribution and cable television, harming theaters and pay TV distributors. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is a serious threat to Paramount CEO David Ellison&#8217;s bid to transform his company into a major competitor to Netflix and Disney. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this \u200clawsuit, California \u2060and \u2060our sister states are fighting for free and fair markets, not rigged markets. America has no kings in government or our economy,&#8221; Bonta said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California and 11 states are suing to block Paramount&#8217;s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the deal would lessen competition in film distribution and cable television, harming theaters and pay TV distributors. The lawsuit is a serious threat to Paramount CEO David Ellison&#8217;s bid to transform his company into a major competitor to Netflix and Disney. &#8220;With this \u200clawsuit, California \u2060and \u2060our sister states are fighting for free and fair markets, not rigged markets. America has no kings in government or our economy,&#8221; Bonta said in a statement.<\/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-1020669","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\/1020669","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=1020669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020689,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020669\/revisions\/1020689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}