{"id":981031,"date":"2025-12-19T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981031"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:34:44","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-rejects-paramounts-108-billion-takeover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/warner-bros-discovery-rejects-paramounts-108-billion-takeover-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros Discovery rejects Paramount\u2019s $108-billion takeover bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Intensifying the ongoing and one of the most closely watched consolidation battles in the global media industry, Warner Bros. Discovery has on Wednesday rejected a $108 billion hostile takeover bid from Paramount Global, Reuters and BBC reported. <\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the bid, the board of Warner Bros. Discovery said the all-cash proposal did not adequately address financing certainty, execution risks and long-term shareholder value, and reaffirmed its support for the company\u2019s existing strategic path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Intensifying the ongoing and one of the most closely watched consolidation battles in the global media industry, Warner Bros. Discovery has on Wednesday rejected a $108 billion hostile takeover bid from Paramount Global, Reuters and BBC reported. Rejecting the bid, the board of Warner Bros. Discovery said the all-cash proposal did not adequately address financing certainty, execution risks and long-term shareholder value, and reaffirmed its support for the company\u2019s existing strategic path.<\/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":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981031","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=981031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}