{"id":986188,"date":"2026-01-19T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986188"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:50:05","slug":"ted-sarandos-says-critics-just-misunderstand-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/ted-sarandos-says-critics-just-misunderstand-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Sarandos says critics just misunderstand Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, sent shock waves through the entertainment world last month when his company announced an $83 billion deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s movie and TV business. <\/p>\n<p>The deal elicited a strong &#8212; and largely negative &#8212; reaction within Hollywood. It also upset the plans of Paramount, which had been aggressively pursuing a deal for all of Warner Bros. Paramount is still aiming to buy the company, launching a hostile bid and threatening a board fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, sent shock waves through the entertainment world last month when his company announced an $83 billion deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s movie and TV business. The deal elicited a strong &#8212; and largely negative &#8212; reaction within Hollywood. It also upset the plans of Paramount, which had been aggressively pursuing a deal for all of Warner Bros. Paramount is still aiming to buy the company, launching a hostile bid and threatening a board fight.<\/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-986188","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\/986188","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=986188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}