Lucas Shaw

It has come out now that the NFL has signed an 11-year, $110 billion media rights deal.

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It's a round table of comics on couches, and they, you know, you pitch your jokes, and you get to run your bits.

The Warner Brothers board's not really concerned about synergies.

I think that if they could have chosen between the two buyers, they preferred Netflix.

Netflix is a bigger, stronger, healthier company.

But Paramount ultimately offered more money.

And a lot of Warner Brothers shareholders preferred Paramount because Paramount's buying the whole company.

So they get bought out right now with cash, whereas the Netflix deal was more of a two-step process where Warner Brothers was going to have to spin out its cable networks and then sell the rest of the company to Netflix.

The Warner Brothers board's not really concerned about synergies.

I think that if they could have chosen between the two buyers, they preferred Netflix.

Netflix is a bigger, stronger, healthier company.

But Paramount ultimately offered more money.

And a lot of Warner Brothers shareholders preferred Paramount because Paramount's buying the whole company.

So they get bought out right now with cash, whereas the Netflix deal was more of a two-step process where Warner Brothers was going to have to spin out its cable networks and then sell the rest of the company to Netflix.

The Warner Brothers board is not really concerned about synergies.

I think that if they could have chosen between the two buyers, they preferred Netflix.

Netflix is a bigger, stronger, healthier company.

But Paramount ultimately offered more money.

The Warner Brothers board is not really concerned about synergies.