{"id":995330,"date":"2026-02-27T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995330"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:16:47","slug":"netflix-bows-out-as-paramount-emerges-frontrunner-to-acquire-warner-bros-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/netflix-bows-out-as-paramount-emerges-frontrunner-to-acquire-warner-bros-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix bows out as Paramount emerges frontrunner to acquire Warner Bros Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is declining to raise 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 the fellow storied Hollywood giant. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, after Warner&#8217;s board announced that Skydance-owned Paramount&#8217;s offer was superior to the agreement it had previously struck with Netflix, the streaming giant said the new price that would be required to buy Warner would make it a deal that is &#8220;no longer financially attractive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is declining to raise 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 the fellow storied Hollywood giant. On Thursday, after Warner&#8217;s board announced that Skydance-owned Paramount&#8217;s offer was superior to the agreement it had previously struck with Netflix, the streaming giant said the new price that would be required to buy Warner would make it a deal that is &#8220;no longer financially attractive.&#8221;<\/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-995330","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\/995330","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=995330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}