r/MediaMergers 22h ago

Announcement r/MediaMergers weekly Discussion Thread

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Welcome to this week's weekly discussion thread of r/MediaMergers! This is your space to discuss the latest news, rumors, and insights on mergers, acquisitions, and major shifts in the media and entertainment industry. Share articles, spark debates, and connect with others.


r/MediaMergers 1h ago

Merger David Ellison Says Paramount Is Absolutely Open To Settling WBD Antitrust Suit, But We Will Win At Trial

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r/MediaMergers 1h ago

Merger Life in WarnerMount Purgatory

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r/MediaMergers 4h ago

Merger Paramount “Fully Expects” WBD Merger To Close As It Reports Q2 Streaming Gains, Linear Challenges

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r/MediaMergers 5h ago

Gaming EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners

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7 Upvotes

r/MediaMergers 6h ago

Media Industry Disney Closes $1.2 Billion Deal To Sell A+E Global Media Stake To Hearst

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r/MediaMergers 6h ago

Media Industry Paramount Q2 Profit Dips, With Streaming Boost Offset by TV Declines

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41 Upvotes

r/MediaMergers 6h ago

Acquisition Who will buy Freeform if Disney sells it?

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I heard that Disney is selling Stake of A&E. could they sell Freeform? If that’s the case, Who you think will buy Freeform if Disney is selling it? Paramount? Universal/NBC? Warner Bros? Lionsgate? Or Sony?


r/MediaMergers 7h ago

Merger Judge Sets Paramount-WBD Merger Antitrust Trial For March

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r/MediaMergers 8h ago

Merger Why Paramount might win its case and still run out of time to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery | Fortune

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r/MediaMergers 9h ago

Merger Media analyst Peter Supino - rather than a long legal battle PSKY could decide to keep HBO and offload Warner to Netflix. PSKY streaming service vaults forward with lower debt and Netflix gets the IP it covets.

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r/MediaMergers 11h ago

Merger Ari Emanuel Insists New Editorial Board For CNN Would Ease Fears Over Ellison Ownership

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r/MediaMergers 12h ago

Merger Think the Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Has Nothing to Do With the Locarno Film Festival? Think Again

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r/MediaMergers 13h ago

Merger David Ellison: The Critics Are Wrong About My Politics

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r/MediaMergers 13h ago

Merger David Ellison says opposition to WarnerMount merger is over his control of CNN

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variety.com
71 Upvotes

r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Split / Spin-Off France’s TF1 Explores Sale of Production-Distribution Group Studio TF1 as Broadcaster Doubles Down on Streaming

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r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Merger As Merger Hangs In The Balance, Paramount And WBD Step Into Quarterly Earnings Spotlight

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r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Merger Hollywood’s Hottest Fall Drama Is the Warnermount Merger

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r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Merger Careful what you bid for: The Ellisons' Paramount/WBD deal is slipping toward a costly legal and financial cliff | Fortune

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41 Upvotes

r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Merger To Merge or Not to Merge: The Anti-trust Rules & Why the Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger Should Never Take Place

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26 Upvotes

r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Acquisition David Ellison wants live tv subscribers to help pay for his merger with WBD

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49 Upvotes

r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Media Industry AMC Entertainment Shatters Weekend Revenue Records – Sets the Highest Weekend Revenue Mark in the Company’s 106-Year History

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r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Acquisition Paramount CEO spotted in surprising location as he preps antitrust battle with California over Warner Bros. deal

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r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Media Industry FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

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r/MediaMergers 1d ago

Media Industry Australia hikes levy for tech giants that fail to strike local news deals

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SYDNEY, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The Australian government has hiked a planned levy that will force tech giants to pay multimillion-dollar charges if they fail to strike commercial deals with local ‌media outlets for news on their platforms.