Paramount And Warner Bros. Discovery Combined Will Control 40% Of Acquired TV Viewing On Streaming.

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will own the most valuable library of television shows with 40% of viewing to the top ...

Paramount deal for CNN and Warner Bros. draws concerns about news independence

Paramount’s $111-billion Warner Bros. takeover would put CNN and CBS News under Ellison family control, raising concerns about editorial independence amid ties to Trump. The merger threatens more ...
CNN

Paramount CEO David Ellison says CNN’s editorial independence ‘will be maintained’

Paramount CEO David Ellison has pledged to support editorial independence at CNN, saying it “needs to be maintained,” amid widespread concern about his company’s plans for the news network. Last week, ...
Deadline.com

Paramount Won’t Sell Cable Networks After WBD Merger, Touts “Incredible Footprint” Of Combined Linear Business

Paramount executives stressed Monday that once merged with Warner Bros. Discovery, the company combined has no plans to unload any legacy cable networks. CEO David Ellison and COO and Chief Strategy ...
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'No One Is Happy': CNN Staffers 'Devastated' as Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Deal Sparks Panic at Troubled Network

Staffers at CNN are reportedly deeply afraid and filled with "dread" over the network likely becoming part of the more conservative Paramount-Skydance under a proposed new deal, RadarOnline.com can ...
Fox News

Jake Tapper ruefully reveals CNN will be affected by Paramount's looming takeover of network

CNN host Jake Tapper's reaction summed it up on Thursday when he told viewers the future of the network was affected by the decision of Netflix to back out of buying the cable channel's parent company ...
New York Post

CNN staffers in a panic over Paramount takeover — what’s likely in store for cable news giant

CNN staffers are freaking out after learning that their left-leaning network’s owner Warner Bros. Discovery will be acquired by Paramount Skydance — even as insiders confirmed that the new owners plan ...
Variety

CNN Staffers Fear Warner Bros.-Paramount Deal Will Hurt Their Journalism and Network’s Financial Health

Netflix on Thursday said it would walk away from its agreement with Warner, following a revised bid from Paramount that Warner said was “superior.” Warner CEO David Zaslav on Thursday during an ...
The Boston Globe

CNN chief prescribes calm after staff anxiety over Paramount’s expected purchase of parent company

Word had barely spread about Paramount’s apparent victory in the competition to buy Warner Bros. Discovery before CNN chief Mark Thompson wrote to staff members. His message, in effect: Keep calm and ...
Comicbook.com

Cartoon Network Creator Posts Controversial Response to Paramount/Warner Bros Merger

This week has had some major news for Hollywood when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. While it had seemed like a done deal that Netflix would acquire Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount was able to ...
The Hollywood Reporter

How Do Warners and Paramount’s TV and Streaming Assets Jibe?

Netflix and HBO could have been a combination for the ages, or the quality of the latter could have slowly eroded under the cost-sensitive stewardship of the former. We’ll never know. Though not a ...
CNN

What does the Paramount-WBD merger mean for CNN?

Viewers and readers of CNN might be wondering the same thing that CNN employees are asking right now: What will Paramount’s ownership mean? Answers are in short supply. Paramount executives have ...