{"id":986860,"date":"2026-01-21T09:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986860"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:48:46","slug":"netflix-shifts-to-all-cash-bid-for-warner-bros-to-block-paramount-in-takeover-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/netflix-shifts-to-all-cash-bid-for-warner-bros-to-block-paramount-in-takeover-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix shifts to all-cash bid for Warner Bros to block Paramount in takeover battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has switched to an all-cash offer for Warner Bros Discovery\u2019s studio and streaming assets, without raising its $82.7 billion valuation, in a move aimed at shutting the door on rival efforts by Paramount to acquire the Hollywood company. <\/p>\n<p>The revised all-cash bid, priced at $27.75 a share, has unanimous backing from Warner Bros\u2019 board, according to a regulatory filing released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has switched to an all-cash offer for Warner Bros Discovery\u2019s studio and streaming assets, without raising its $82.7 billion valuation, in a move aimed at shutting the door on rival efforts by Paramount to acquire the Hollywood company. The revised all-cash bid, priced at $27.75 a share, has unanimous backing from Warner Bros\u2019 board, according to a regulatory filing released on Tuesday.<\/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":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986860","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=986860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}