{"id":995193,"date":"2026-02-27T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995193"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:04:54","slug":"netflix-walks-away-from-warner-bros-bid-paving-path-for-paramount-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/netflix-walks-away-from-warner-bros-bid-paving-path-for-paramount-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix walks away from Warner Bros. bid, paving path for Paramount takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise yet strategic move, Netflix has formally stepped back from its proposed purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s streaming and studio assets, saying the transaction no longer makes financial sense after Paramount Skydance sweetened its competing bid. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Thursday, as quoted by Reuters, Netflix said it would not match Paramount Skydance\u2019s revised $31-per-share offer, citing valuation discipline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise yet strategic move, Netflix has formally stepped back from its proposed purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s streaming and studio assets, saying the transaction no longer makes financial sense after Paramount Skydance sweetened its competing bid. In a statement released Thursday, as quoted by Reuters, Netflix said it would not match Paramount Skydance\u2019s revised $31-per-share offer, citing valuation discipline.<\/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-995193","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\/995193","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=995193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}