{"id":978819,"date":"2025-12-06T07:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978819"},"modified":"2025-12-06T08:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:41:04","slug":"netflix-to-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-studios-streaming-unit-for-72-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/06\/netflix-to-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-studios-streaming-unit-for-72-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix to buy Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s studios, streaming unit for $72 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s TV and film studios and streaming division for $72 billion, a deal that would hand control of one of Hollywood&#8217;s most prized and oldest assets to the streaming pioneer that has upended the media industry. <\/p>\n<p>The agreement &#8211; announced on Friday &#8211; follows a weeks-long bidding war where Netflix seized the lead with a nearly $28-a-share offer that eclipsed Paramount Skydance&#8217;s nearly $24 bid for the whole of Warner Bros Discovery, including the cable TV assets slated for a spinoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s TV and film studios and streaming division for $72 billion, a deal that would hand control of one of Hollywood&#8217;s most prized and oldest assets to the streaming pioneer that has upended the media industry. The agreement &#8211; announced on Friday &#8211; follows a weeks-long bidding war where Netflix seized the lead with a nearly $28-a-share offer that eclipsed Paramount Skydance&#8217;s nearly $24 bid for the whole of Warner Bros Discovery, including the cable TV assets slated for a spinoff.<\/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-978819","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\/978819","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=978819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}