Dawn Chmielewski

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Business Daily · Power Players: Can the Paramount–Warner merger survive? · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

He's an incredibly genial, you know, nice guy who, as Michelle was mentioning earlier, truly loves movies.

I mean, he just is passionate about it and is a powerful advocate.

You know, I've talked to Jane Fonda, who adores him.

She's concerned about the outcome of this merger.

But he's an incredibly popular figure in Hollywood because he has such passion for

for the industry.

And he's also a new generation of media mogul, someone who actually comes from the industry and loves it.

And he's not, you know, an accountant, you know, he's not a number cruncher, right?

He's a guy who loves the industry and loves storytelling.

So,

In some corners of the industry, people are rooting for him.

So he is not this monster.

But it's hard to ignore the politics that you mentioned.

All of the Democratic attorneys general who brought this suit all mention that the Trump administration has not done its job in terms of its regulatory review, that it was somehow that the Ellison's are favored and therefore the deal got a glide path to approval.

So politics is definitely coloring this, how this deal is viewed.

Well, that was a core part, too, of the antitrust suit that these attorneys general filed.

The combined Paramount Warner Brothers entity will have 50 cable networks, some of the best known brands in news like CNN and entertainment and children's entertainment, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, for example, will have it be in the same house.

And the attorneys general argue that.

This outsized control of all of these cable networks will have a real impact on the kinds of terms they're able to negotiate from distributors like cable companies or satellite TV providers.

And that, too, will have an impact on consumers and what they pay.

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