{"id":984241,"date":"2026-01-09T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984241"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:09:03","slug":"paramount-again-tells-warner-bros-its-offer-trumps-netflixs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/paramount-again-tells-warner-bros-its-offer-trumps-netflixs\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount again tells Warner Bros its offer trumps Netflix&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance on Thursday reiterated that its $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros Discovery was superior to a rival deal from Netflix, saying the value of the cable spinoff central to the streaming giant&#8217;s offer was effectively worthless. <\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s board on Wednesday rejected Paramount&#8217;s amended hostile offer that included a $40 billion in equity personally guaranteed by Oracle&#8217;s co-founder Larry Ellison, the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison, and $54 billion in debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance on Thursday reiterated that its $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros Discovery was superior to a rival deal from Netflix, saying the value of the cable spinoff central to the streaming giant&#8217;s offer was effectively worthless. Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s board on Wednesday rejected Paramount&#8217;s amended hostile offer that included a $40 billion in equity personally guaranteed by Oracle&#8217;s co-founder Larry Ellison, the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison, and $54 billion in debt.<\/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-984241","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\/984241","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=984241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}