Julia Alexander
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 11 Jun
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And a big part of it is because after David Ellison bought Paramount, this was a company circling the drain.
Sherry Redstone just wanted to get rid of it at this point and go up the highs that she could.
David Ellison knew that Paramount on its own was never going to do much against Netflix or let alone YouTube or Instagram or TikTok.
He needed Warner Brothers Discovery to come in.
And so I think the fact that he went into that
deal or attempt to get a deal before Warner Brothers Discovery put itself up for auction.
He went to David Zaslav and was like, I want to buy your company.
And when David Zaslav then opened up the auction process in WBD and Netflix was a key bidder, you could see how much more desperate David Ellison was becoming every single month.
raising the bid to $107 or $108 billion to include the cable networks, which are worth absolutely nothing, kind of reaching out to Warner Brothers Discovery shareholders and saying, we're going to go in all cash and this is the best deal you can do.
At the same time that Warner Brothers Discovery is saying, look, to your point, Neal, I
We are a company under duress.
We are a company who believes has good assets, but we need someone else to take these assets and turn them into something.
And we think that's Netflix.
You do see how important owning this part of the Hollywood empire is to whether it's David Ellison or Ted Sarandos, because David Ellison is becoming much more unhinged in public in his attempts to kind of get it back.
But the deal is all but there, although with Trump and this administration, never say never.
No, they'll sell to Apollo or someone to private equity and then private equity will, you know, do what private equity does and kind of ride it out to the end and then just dump them.
But those cable networks are done.
I think you're giving Zaslav a lot of credit for having a plan.
So that's great.
I think he's the type of guy... I mean, look, he's the type of guy... He came into Hollywood.
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