{"id":984008,"date":"2026-01-08T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984008"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:04:34","slug":"how-us-media-firms-stack-up-as-netflix-and-paramount-clash-for-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/how-us-media-firms-stack-up-as-netflix-and-paramount-clash-for-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"How US media firms stack up as Netflix and Paramount clash for Warner Bros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros Discovery rejected Paramount Skydance&#8217;s amended $108.4 billion hostile bid on Wednesday, potentially clearing a path \u200dfor the company&#8217;s deal with Netflix. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison provided a \u200bpersonal guarantee of $40.4 billion in equity financing to back Paramount Skydance&#8217;s all-cash bid. The guarantee aimed to allay Warner Bros board&#8217;s concerns about Paramount&#8217;s financing. <\/p>\n<p>The bidding \u2060war has erupted when the media industry is experiencing profound shifts, marked by intense competition and a transition to streaming amid a declining traditional linear television business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros Discovery rejected Paramount Skydance&#8217;s amended $108.4 billion hostile bid on Wednesday, potentially clearing a path \u200dfor the company&#8217;s deal with Netflix. Last month, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison provided a \u200bpersonal guarantee of $40.4 billion in equity financing to back Paramount Skydance&#8217;s all-cash bid. The guarantee aimed to allay Warner Bros board&#8217;s concerns about Paramount&#8217;s financing. The bidding \u2060war has erupted when the media industry is experiencing profound shifts, marked by intense competition and a transition to streaming amid a declining traditional linear television business.<\/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-984008","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\/984008","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=984008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}