{"id":1030965,"date":"2026-08-25T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030965"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:03:15","slug":"california-cancels-talks-over-110-billion-paramount-warner-deal-citing-bad-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/california-cancels-talks-over-110-billion-paramount-warner-deal-citing-bad-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"California cancels talks over $110 billion Paramount-Warner deal, citing \u2018bad faith\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled a meeting with Paramount Skydance representatives scheduled for Monday to begin settlement talks over the state&#8217;s lawsuit seeking to block Paramount&#8217;s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, his office said. Paramount has pushed for a settlement in the case, which is the last hurdle to the deal along with a parallel lawsuit by the Writer&#8217;s Guild \u200cof America. <\/p>\n<p>The company \u2060faces a mountain of fees and costs to keep the deal together if the lawsuit continues to a trial scheduled \u200bfor March. Bonta and his partner states have so far won key rulings, giving them leverage if settlement \u200btalks continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled a meeting with Paramount Skydance representatives scheduled for Monday to begin settlement talks over the state&#8217;s lawsuit seeking to block Paramount&#8217;s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, his office said. Paramount has pushed for a settlement in the case, which is the last hurdle to the deal along with a parallel lawsuit by the Writer&#8217;s Guild \u200cof America. The company \u2060faces a mountain of fees and costs to keep the deal together if the lawsuit continues to a trial scheduled \u200bfor March. Bonta and his partner states have so far won key [&hellip;]<\/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-1030965","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\/1030965","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=1030965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030997,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030965\/revisions\/1030997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}