Oliver Darcy
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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I assume they're going to increase their offer in that bid and see if they can get it.
They really want Warner Brothers Discovery, Don, and this is somewhat existential for them.
They purchased Paramount with the idea that they would then purchase Warner Brothers Discovery and then combine those two companies so they would have the scale to compete against Netflix, to compete against Disney, which are much bigger than they are.
If they don't actually get these assets, I think they're in somewhat trouble because Paramount alone doesn't have the content library to compete against these much bigger companies.
Netflix, yes.
Netflix has struck a deal to purchase the Warner Brothers Discovery film library and the HBO Max streamer.
And as a part of that deal, then the other assets that Warner Brothers Discovery owns, the cable assets in particular, which includes CNN, those would be spun off into a separate company that would...
run entirely separately.
But, you know, Don, the future of CNN is at stake here.
And I think that's actually... It's interesting because CNN as a business doesn't... You know, it's a small...
player in this whole thing, right?
It makes a lot of money for a news organization, but it's not what's making a lot of money for these companies.
That would be like their film studios or their streamers or whatever.
But CNN is playing this outsized role because everyone wants control of CNN.
Donald Trump has an opinion, obviously, on who's going to get CNN.
Netflix doesn't want CNN.
David Ellison very much does want CNN.
And I suspect
that that's an argument they're making to Donald Trump that he should not approve or, you know, do everything they can to block the Netflix deal because they should want Paramount to own it.
Because look how nice we've been to you with CBS News.
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