{"id":984024,"date":"2026-01-08T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984024"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:04:05","slug":"warner-bros-rejects-revised-paramount-bid-as-risky-leveraged-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/warner-bros-rejects-revised-paramount-bid-as-risky-leveraged-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros rejects revised Paramount bid as risky leveraged buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s board has unanimously turned down Paramount Skydance&#8217;s latest attempt to acquire the studio, saying its revised $108.4 billion hostile bid amounted to a risky leveraged buyout that investors should reject. In a letter to shareholders on \u2060Wednesday, Warner Bros&#8217; board said Paramount&#8217;s offer hinges on &#8220;an extraordinary amount of debt financing&#8221; that heightens the risk of closing. It reaffirmed its commitment to streaming giant Netflix&#8217;s $82.7 billion deal for the film and television studio and other assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s board has unanimously turned down Paramount Skydance&#8217;s latest attempt to acquire the studio, saying its revised $108.4 billion hostile bid amounted to a risky leveraged buyout that investors should reject. In a letter to shareholders on \u2060Wednesday, Warner Bros&#8217; board said Paramount&#8217;s offer hinges on &#8220;an extraordinary amount of debt financing&#8221; that heightens the risk of closing. It reaffirmed its commitment to streaming giant Netflix&#8217;s $82.7 billion deal for the film and television studio and other assets.<\/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-984024","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\/984024","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=984024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}