{"id":994761,"date":"2026-02-25T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994761"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:44:47","slug":"paramount-submits-higher-offer-for-warner-bros-discovery-in-bid-to-block-netflix-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/paramount-submits-higher-offer-for-warner-bros-discovery-in-bid-to-block-netflix-source-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount submits higher offer for Warner Bros Discovery in bid to block Netflix, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance submitted a higher offer for Warner Bros Discovery, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday, ratcheting up efforts to derail the HBO Max owner&#8217;s deal with Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>The bidding war for one of Hollywood&#8217;s most coveted assets, including the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; and &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; franchises, has raised the stakes for dominance in the streaming-led market.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount&#8217;s new bid \u2014 which improves its initial offer of $108.4 billion, or $30 per share, for the whole company \u2014 seeks to address Warner Bros&#8217; concerns about the certainty of its financing, the source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance submitted a higher offer for Warner Bros Discovery, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday, ratcheting up efforts to derail the HBO Max owner&#8217;s deal with Netflix. The bidding war for one of Hollywood&#8217;s most coveted assets, including the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; and &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; franchises, has raised the stakes for dominance in the streaming-led market. Paramount&#8217;s new bid \u2014 which improves its initial offer of $108.4 billion, or $30 per share, for the whole company \u2014 seeks to address Warner Bros&#8217; concerns about the certainty of its financing, the source 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-994761","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\/994761","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=994761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}