{"id":996368,"date":"2026-03-05T08:14:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996368"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:59:54","slug":"paramount-acquires-warner-bros-discovery-in-mega-deal-the-winners-losers-and-trumps-man-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/05\/paramount-acquires-warner-bros-discovery-in-mega-deal-the-winners-losers-and-trumps-man-in-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount acquires Warner Bros Discovery in mega deal: the winners, losers and Trump\u2019s man in the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s planned acquisition of Hollywood studio Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has fallen apart at the eleventh hour, as Paramount Skydance has made a \u201csuperior\u201d proposal to buy the conglomerate for A$156 billion. <\/p>\n<p>While the independence of the companies following the acquisition is unclear, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has already discussed plans to merge the portfolios of streamers Paramount+ and HBO Max to compete with Netflix. <\/p>\n<p>Netflix withdrew from the process following Paramount Skydance\u2019s proposal. It said WBD would have been \u201c\u2018nice to have\u2019 at the right price, not a \u2018must have\u2019 at any price\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s planned acquisition of Hollywood studio Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has fallen apart at the eleventh hour, as Paramount Skydance has made a \u201csuperior\u201d proposal to buy the conglomerate for A$156 billion. While the independence of the companies following the acquisition is unclear, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has already discussed plans to merge the portfolios of streamers Paramount+ and HBO Max to compete with Netflix. Netflix withdrew from the process following Paramount Skydance\u2019s proposal. It said WBD would have been \u201c\u2018nice to have\u2019 at the right price, not a \u2018must have\u2019 at any price\u201d.<\/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-996368","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\/996368","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=996368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}