{"id":995279,"date":"2026-02-27T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995279"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:09:03","slug":"netflix-walks-away-from-warner-bros-deal-clearing-the-path-for-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/netflix-walks-away-from-warner-bros-deal-clearing-the-path-for-paramount\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, clearing the path for Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK : Netflix is walking away from its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s studio and streaming business, in a stunning move that effectively puts Paramount in a position to take over its storied Hollywood rival. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Warner&#8217;s board announced that Skydance-owned Paramount&#8217;s latest offer to buy the entire company for $31 per share was superior to the agreement it had previously struck with Netflix. Warner gave Netflix four business days to come up with a counteroffer \u2014 but Netflix instead responded less than two hours later, declining to raise its proposal. It said the new price it would have to pay made the deal &#8220;no longer financially attractive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK : Netflix is walking away from its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s studio and streaming business, in a stunning move that effectively puts Paramount in a position to take over its storied Hollywood rival. On Thursday, Warner&#8217;s board announced that Skydance-owned Paramount&#8217;s latest offer to buy the entire company for $31 per share was superior to the agreement it had previously struck with Netflix. Warner gave Netflix four business days to come up with a counteroffer \u2014 but Netflix instead responded less than two hours later, declining to raise its proposal. It said the new price it [&hellip;]<\/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":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995279","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=995279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}