{"id":979642,"date":"2025-12-11T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979642"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:59:26","slug":"netflix-vs-paramount-warner-bros-bidders-brace-for-a-fight-that-will-last-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/netflix-vs-paramount-warner-bros-bidders-brace-for-a-fight-that-will-last-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix vs Paramount: Warner Bros.\u2019 bidders brace for a fight that will last months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance Corp. and Netflix Inc. \u2014 the entertainment heavyweights locked in a bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. \u2014 are girding for a battle they predict will stretch well into 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. was given 10 business days to respond to Paramount\u2019s hostile $30-a-share bid for the company on Monday. Since that offer was already rejected once, the Warner Bros. board isn\u2019t planning to cancel the merger agreement signed last week with Netflix, according to people familiar with the company\u2019s thinking. Doing so would require Warner Bros. to pay Netflix a $2.8 billion termination fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance Corp. and Netflix Inc. \u2014 the entertainment heavyweights locked in a bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. \u2014 are girding for a battle they predict will stretch well into 2026. Warner Bros. was given 10 business days to respond to Paramount\u2019s hostile $30-a-share bid for the company on Monday. Since that offer was already rejected once, the Warner Bros. board isn\u2019t planning to cancel the merger agreement signed last week with Netflix, according to people familiar with the company\u2019s thinking. Doing so would require Warner Bros. to pay Netflix a $2.8 billion termination fee.<\/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-979642","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\/979642","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=979642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}