{"id":1022490,"date":"2026-07-21T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022490"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:41:22","slug":"judge-orders-paramount-to-temporarily-pause-warner-bros-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/judge-orders-paramount-to-temporarily-pause-warner-bros-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders Paramount to temporarily pause Warner Bros acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition \u200bof states led by California \u200bwon a pause of Paramount&#8217;s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, after they \u200cargued letting \u2060the \u2060merger close would irreparably harm competition. <\/p>\n<p>California and \u200b11 states sued on July 13, arguing the \u200bdeal would create a media behemoth with the power to raise prices \u200bin film and television. <\/p>\n<p>If \u2060the deal \u200cis allowed to close, \u200bParamount \u200bwould soon begin cutting jobs \u2060and sharing sensitive information with Warner \u200bBros., actions that are hard \u200bto undo if the merger is ultimately found to be illegal, the states argued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition \u200bof states led by California \u200bwon a pause of Paramount&#8217;s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, after they \u200cargued letting \u2060the \u2060merger close would irreparably harm competition. California and \u200b11 states sued on July 13, arguing the \u200bdeal would create a media behemoth with the power to raise prices \u200bin film and television. If \u2060the deal \u200cis allowed to close, \u200bParamount \u200bwould soon begin cutting jobs \u2060and sharing sensitive information with Warner \u200bBros., actions that are hard \u200bto undo if the merger is ultimately found to be illegal, the states argued.<\/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-1022490","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\/1022490","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=1022490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022494,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022490\/revisions\/1022494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}