{"id":995768,"date":"2026-03-02T08:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995768"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:06:00","slug":"netflix-lost-warner-maybe-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/netflix-lost-warner-maybe-thats-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix lost Warner. Maybe that&#8217;s a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s stock jumped nearly 14% Friday, a day after it stunned Hollywood by backing out of its $83 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery. <\/p>\n<p>Netflix&#8217;s bank account grew by $2.8 billion Friday, too, when Paramount paid a breakup fee for sideswiping the Warner deal. <\/p>\n<p>And two of Netflix&#8217;s top competitors, Paramount and Warner Bros., now have the daunting task of forming one successful company out of their two struggling businesses, all while managing a huge pile of debt. Sounds like a huge distraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s stock jumped nearly 14% Friday, a day after it stunned Hollywood by backing out of its $83 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery. Netflix&#8217;s bank account grew by $2.8 billion Friday, too, when Paramount paid a breakup fee for sideswiping the Warner deal. And two of Netflix&#8217;s top competitors, Paramount and Warner Bros., now have the daunting task of forming one successful company out of their two struggling businesses, all while managing a huge pile of debt. Sounds like a huge distraction.<\/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-995768","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\/995768","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=995768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}