{"id":1030963,"date":"2026-08-25T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030963"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:02:42","slug":"paramount-warner-bros-merger-california-may-seek-cable-channel-divestitures-film-studio-safeguards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/paramount-warner-bros-merger-california-may-seek-cable-channel-divestitures-film-studio-safeguards\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount-Warner Bros merger: California may seek cable channel divestitures, film studio safeguards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California \u200bAttorney General Rob \u200bBonta is expected to ask Paramount to \u200bdivest some cable channels and commit to keeping its movie studio separate from Warner Bros. before he signs off on \u200ctheir merger, \u2060the \u2060Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the \u200bmatter. <\/p>\n<p>Paramount and California state officials are set to meet on Monday to discuss potential ways to settle the state&#8217;s antitrust lawsuit, the report said. <\/p>\n<p>Lawyers from both \u200bsides met on Friday to \u2060lay out \u200can agenda for Monday&#8217;s meeting, including \u200bdiscussions about \u200bthe cable and motion-picture businesses, the Journal \u2060reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California \u200bAttorney General Rob \u200bBonta is expected to ask Paramount to \u200bdivest some cable channels and commit to keeping its movie studio separate from Warner Bros. before he signs off on \u200ctheir merger, \u2060the \u2060Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the \u200bmatter. Paramount and California state officials are set to meet on Monday to discuss potential ways to settle the state&#8217;s antitrust lawsuit, the report said. Lawyers from both \u200bsides met on Friday to \u2060lay out \u200can agenda for Monday&#8217;s meeting, including \u200bdiscussions about \u200bthe cable and motion-picture businesses, the Journal \u2060reported.<\/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-1030963","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\/1030963","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=1030963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030996,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030963\/revisions\/1030996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}