{"id":1041769,"date":"2026-10-08T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041769"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:29:51","slug":"cnn-under-new-ownership-what-skydance-takeover-means-for-the-us-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/cnn-under-new-ownership-what-skydance-takeover-means-for-the-us-news-network\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN under new ownership: What Skydance takeover means for the US news network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a tumultuous, roughly yearlong process, Skydance-owned Paramount closed its USD 81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday. And beyond Hollywood, the mega merger brings two titans of the American TV news landscape &#8211; CBS and CNN &#8211; under the same roof. <\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the deal&#8217;s completion, Skydance confirmed that CNN&#8217;s Mark Thompson will stay on as editor-in-chief of the network &#8211; separate from CBS, where Bari Weiss remains at the helm. But how the combined company&#8217;s news operations will look farther down the road is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a tumultuous, roughly yearlong process, Skydance-owned Paramount closed its USD 81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday. And beyond Hollywood, the mega merger brings two titans of the American TV news landscape &#8211; CBS and CNN &#8211; under the same roof. On the eve of the deal&#8217;s completion, Skydance confirmed that CNN&#8217;s Mark Thompson will stay on as editor-in-chief of the network &#8211; separate from CBS, where Bari Weiss remains at the helm. But how the combined company&#8217;s news operations will look farther down the road is yet to be seen.<\/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":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041769","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=1041769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041790,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041769\/revisions\/1041790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}