{"id":995947,"date":"2026-03-03T07:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995947"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:52:50","slug":"paramount-debt-to-hit-79-billion-after-warner-bros-deal-no-plan-to-sell-cable-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/03\/paramount-debt-to-hit-79-billion-after-warner-bros-deal-no-plan-to-sell-cable-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount debt to hit $79 billion after Warner Bros deal, no plan to sell cable assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Warner Bros-Paramount Skydance merger will create a combined entity that would \u200bhave a net debt of about $79 billion, Paramount \u200bsaid on Monday, as it ruled out any plan to divest or spinoff \u200bthe cable assets. <\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed by Paramount CEO David Ellison in a call with analysts after signing the $110 billion, or $31-per-share, deal for Warner Bros early on Friday, after Netflix declined to raise its offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warner Bros-Paramount Skydance merger will create a combined entity that would \u200bhave a net debt of about $79 billion, Paramount \u200bsaid on Monday, as it ruled out any plan to divest or spinoff \u200bthe cable assets. This was disclosed by Paramount CEO David Ellison in a call with analysts after signing the $110 billion, or $31-per-share, deal for Warner Bros early on Friday, after Netflix declined to raise its offer.<\/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-995947","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\/995947","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=995947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}