Shamita Basu

But again, Larry Ellison is just one of those people that has some

Managed to stay out of headlines for the most part.

Well, that's exactly the, you know, there's this like parallel news media conversation that's happening alongside the Hollywood conversation in a lot of these acquisitions, CBS being under Paramount, CNN being under Warner Brothers, right, which is part of that conversation.

What kinds of changes have we seen since the Paramount merger went through?

And how have we seen them reflected at CBS if anyone's been able to draw connections as best they can?

Right.

I mean, this angst is now being felt in the CNN offices where they're talking about, you know, what will our newsroom look like if we are, in fact, acquired in this way?

Well, let's talk about what else is on the table in this acquisition deal.

I mean, what do Netflix or Paramount stand to gain by acquiring Warner Brothers?

Yeah.

From what you can tell, and having spoken to people in the industry, what do you think might happen?

What feels likely to you?

I mean, help me understand for a regular person, for a viewer of things in this world, what does this actually mean?

Do you have any sense of what David really wants?

What is he after?

It seems like it's it doesn't seem like his ambitions are financial because at every turn, as you've pointed out, he's had his dad there to back him.

It doesn't seem to have been a motivating factor.

So what is driving him?

Yeah.

Rhys, thank you so much for coming and talking to me about this reporting.