David Ellison
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first heard Nov 2018
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If the deal goes through, Barry Weiss may oversee all news direction at both CBS and CNN.
Weiss has ruffled feathers on the left by requiring that news coverage should, quote, hold both political parties to equal scrutiny.
David Ellison, who serves as the chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance, is backing the $111 billion deal.
After investigating more than 2 million documents, hours of depositions, meetings, and interviews, the Justice Department doesn't think the deal will harm American consumers.
With the television industry being, quote, highly dynamic, the deal should increase competition and consumption, creating stronger competitors across the board.
But concerns still loom as people fear the deal will reduce wages and prices for creative material.
Others fear that this will decrease the amount of buyers for TV and movie scripts and lower potential employers for actors and crew members.
Our offer is $30 a share, all cash, $41 billion in equity that's backstopped by the Ellison family and Redbird, $54 billion in debt with commitments from Citi, Bank of America, and Apollo.
We have faster regulatory certainty to close, and our deal is pro-consumer, it's pro-creative talent, it's pro-competition.
And we believe that when you actually, to further contextualize, there are $30 in cash, or
is basically $17.6 billion in cash more than the $23 in share they signed up.
And we believe when they see what is currently in our offer, that that's what they'll vote for.
A what now?
What we're creating by putting these two companies together is a real competitor to Netflix, a real competitor to Amazon, a real competitor to Disney.
Not something that is so anti-competitive.
There will be no more competition in Hollywood if this deal is allowed to come to pass.
Bloomberg Talks · David Ellison Talks Media Deal Making at Bloomberg Screentime · 9 Oct 2025
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Yeah, no, absolutely.
It's a, it's a great question.
First, I just want to say we,
We couldn't be more excited about the place that we're starting with the asset that we purchased, right?
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