David Fokkenflik

He's made the argument that they're not as big as Netflix, which has more.

They're not as big as YouTube, which really takes so much of American video consumption these days.

And therefore, this is a reasonable way to fight that off and keep a Hollywood proud Hollywood property alive, even if it's two of them being combined under the same banner.

What we've also seen is an extraordinary effort to win over support from the Trump administration.

President Trump has said that.

that he's very interested in the fate of CNN.

He's sort of indicated that he will and that he won't and that he might play a role in this, as he has in so many corporate transactions in his return to office over the past 13 months.

Paramount's looking at the landscape and saying we're too small.

We can't compete.

Netflix is the world's largest streamer.

It's the nation's largest streamer.

There's also Amazon, which, yeah, it bought MGM, which is a small little studio, but Amazon has all the money in the world, the everything store.

It's looking at Apple, and it's looking at Disney, which several years ago bulked up by acquiring most of the Murdoch's Fox Entertainment properties out there in Hollywood.

Paramount says, look, if we combine together, we're two of the old-time studios, Paramount and Warner Brothers.

We can do this.

We have

All these cable properties, you have cable properties.

Let's be in business together.

Let's take on these giants.

Paramount's looking at the landscape and saying, we're too small.