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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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366 points gniting | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source

Previously: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315 (1333 comments)
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indigodaddy ◴[08 Dec 25 15:17 UTC] No.46193176[source]▶
Does WB have to pay the breakup fee to Netflix if a Paramount hostile takeover succeeds?
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raw_anon_1111 ◴[08 Dec 25 16:27 UTC] No.46194238[source]▶
This has nothing to do with the Netflix bid.

Warner bros is being divided into the cable TV stations + discover channel stations and the movie studio and the backlog is separate.

Netflix wants the movie studio + tv back catalog

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indigodaddy ◴[08 Dec 25 16:54 UTC] No.46194611[source]▶
The article bullet point referencing WB Discovery could mislead some into thinking that this takeover is only for the Discovery portion, but that's not the case. $30 would not be for Discovery only (as Netflix's bid is $27.75), it's for the whole kit and caboodle. Yes there are two entities, but/and Paramount wants it all, and the takeover intent is for both.
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kenjackson ◴[08 Dec 25 21:21 UTC] No.46197807[source]▶
I've heard that what Kushner wants is CNN. If they could make CBS+CNN lean conservative like Fox, they pull off a potential to swing the country via news media.
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KumaBear ◴[08 Dec 25 21:51 UTC] No.46198155[source]▶
That's a shitty gamble when online media is where it is at now a days. These big media networks are dinosaurs hanging on by a thread.
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TheCraiggers ◴[08 Dec 25 23:26 UTC] No.46199106[source]▶
I think that's over-simplifying it. Some YouTube personality (or whatever we want to call 'online media' that isn't just CNN's website) isn't going to be getting a Whitehouse press pass anytime soon.
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1. raw_anon_1111 ◴[09 Dec 25 01:12 UTC] No.46200102[source]▶
You haven’t read about what’s going on at the Pentagon wanted the press to sign a release saying only approved content could be published? It was so onerous that even Fox News refused to sign. Now the press Corp is basically a bunch of right wing influencers.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630076/the-press-corps...

Just in case you think this is just another liberal hit piece, let me repeat that Fox News refused to sign the agreement.