{"id":982574,"date":"2025-12-30T08:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982574"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:09:55","slug":"competition-shrinks-as-bid-for-warner-bros-hots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/30\/competition-shrinks-as-bid-for-warner-bros-hots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition shrinks as bid for Warner Bros hots up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s move, announced on December 5, to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for a gargantuan $83 billion \u2014 and the counter hostile bid by Paramount at $108 billion \u2014 has roiled Hollywood and the global entertainment industry. It signals that the already tight monopoly of big entertainment players \u2014 Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and Comcast \u2014 is getting even tighter; that the battle is now entirely about streaming; and that the days of the \u201cbig screen\u201d may be nearing their end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s move, announced on December 5, to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for a gargantuan $83 billion \u2014 and the counter hostile bid by Paramount at $108 billion \u2014 has roiled Hollywood and the global entertainment industry. It signals that the already tight monopoly of big entertainment players \u2014 Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and Comcast \u2014 is getting even tighter; that the battle is now entirely about streaming; and that the days of the \u201cbig screen\u201d may be nearing their end.<\/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-982574","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\/982574","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=982574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}