{"id":980969,"date":"2025-12-18T10:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980969"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:49:30","slug":"warner-bros-to-reject-paramounts-massive-108-billion-bid-why-the-battle-isnt-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/18\/warner-bros-to-reject-paramounts-massive-108-billion-bid-why-the-battle-isnt-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros to reject Paramount\u2019s massive $108 billion bid. Why the battle isn\u2019t over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s board of directors has advised shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance Corporation\u2019s hostile takeover offer and instead approve a previously announced merger agreement with Netflix, according to a statement released on Wednesday. After consulting independent financial and legal advisors, the board concluded that Netflix\u2019s proposal offers better value for WBD shareholders than Paramount Skydance\u2019s bid, which was made on December 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s board of directors has advised shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance Corporation\u2019s hostile takeover offer and instead approve a previously announced merger agreement with Netflix, according to a statement released on Wednesday. After consulting independent financial and legal advisors, the board concluded that Netflix\u2019s proposal offers better value for WBD shareholders than Paramount Skydance\u2019s bid, which was made on December 8.<\/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":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980969","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=980969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}