{"id":993307,"date":"2026-02-18T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993307"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:47:03","slug":"warner-bros-rejects-paramounts-revised-offer-but-gives-studio-a-week-to-negotiate-better-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/warner-bros-rejects-paramounts-revised-offer-but-gives-studio-a-week-to-negotiate-better-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros rejects Paramount&#8217;s revised offer, but gives studio a week to negotiate better deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros Discovery has rejected Paramount Skydance&#8217;s latest $30-a-share hostile takeover bid, but is giving the Hollywood studio seven days to see if it can come up with a better deal to buy the owner of HBO Max and the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; franchise, Warner Bros said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Paramount informally broached an even higher share price, $31 a share, Warner Bros said, apparently enticing the board to the table. <\/p>\n<p>The rival bidder has until February 23 to submit its &#8220;best and final offer,&#8221; which Netflix is allowed to match under the terms of the merger agreement, Warner Bros said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros Discovery has rejected Paramount Skydance&#8217;s latest $30-a-share hostile takeover bid, but is giving the Hollywood studio seven days to see if it can come up with a better deal to buy the owner of HBO Max and the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; franchise, Warner Bros said on Tuesday. Paramount informally broached an even higher share price, $31 a share, Warner Bros said, apparently enticing the board to the table. The rival bidder has until February 23 to submit its &#8220;best and final offer,&#8221; which Netflix is allowed to match under the terms of the merger agreement, Warner Bros said.<\/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-993307","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\/993307","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=993307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}