{"id":1023597,"date":"2026-07-25T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023597"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:47:06","slug":"paramount-agrees-to-pause-warner-bros-deal-while-case-plays-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/paramount-agrees-to-pause-warner-bros-deal-while-case-plays-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount agrees to pause Warner Bros deal while case plays out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance on Friday agreed to pause its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery until after a ruling on a challenge by states to the deal, plunging the $110 billion deal into further uncertainty. <\/p>\n<p>The agreement pausing the deal until next \u200cJune, at \u2060the \u2060latest, trims a few weeks off the case schedule. But \u200bit also comes with a price. <\/p>\n<p>Paramount could owe as much as $1.7 billion in ticking fees to Warner Bros. shareholders if the deal is delayed until then. The fee costs $7 million a day if the merger \u2060does not \u200cclose by September 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance on Friday agreed to pause its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery until after a ruling on a challenge by states to the deal, plunging the $110 billion deal into further uncertainty. The agreement pausing the deal until next \u200cJune, at \u2060the \u2060latest, trims a few weeks off the case schedule. But \u200bit also comes with a price. Paramount could owe as much as $1.7 billion in ticking fees to Warner Bros. shareholders if the deal is delayed until then. The fee costs $7 million a day if the merger \u2060does not \u200cclose by September 30.<\/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-1023597","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\/1023597","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=1023597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023627,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023597\/revisions\/1023627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}