{"id":981036,"date":"2025-12-19T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981036"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:35:59","slug":"why-does-netflix-want-to-buy-warner-bros-to-copy-not-kill-traditional-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/why-does-netflix-want-to-buy-warner-bros-to-copy-not-kill-traditional-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros? To copy, not kill, traditional TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent news that Netflix has agreed to buy part of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) for US$83 billion (\u00a361.8 billion), followed by Paramount Global\u2019s hostile counterbid to acquire WBD in its entirety for US$108.4 billion (\u00a381 billion), has triggered shockwaves through Hollywood and the wider entertainment industry. <\/p>\n<p>Initial responses \u2013 and passionate outcries \u2013 have largely centred on fears over job cuts, subscription fee rises, anti-trust concerns regarding the increased market share either bid would create, and the potential negative impact that Netflix\u2019s acquisition might have on the future of the film industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent news that Netflix has agreed to buy part of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) for US$83 billion (\u00a361.8 billion), followed by Paramount Global\u2019s hostile counterbid to acquire WBD in its entirety for US$108.4 billion (\u00a381 billion), has triggered shockwaves through Hollywood and the wider entertainment industry. Initial responses \u2013 and passionate outcries \u2013 have largely centred on fears over job cuts, subscription fee rises, anti-trust concerns regarding the increased market share either bid would create, and the potential negative impact that Netflix\u2019s acquisition might have on the future of the film industry.<\/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-981036","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\/981036","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=981036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}