{"id":1213866,"date":"2023-12-21T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1213866"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:24:53","slug":"debt-laden-warner-bros-discovery-and-paramount-consider-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1213866","title":{"rendered":"Debt-laden Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount consider merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/emilia-clarke_0-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"Game of Thrones\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/emilia-clarke_0.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1080\" data-width=\"1920\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Media firms are looking for allies to help them take the coveted media throne. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/static.cdn.turner.com\/styles\/scale_792\/s3\/HBO_2020_07\/images\/69\/emilia-clarke_0.jpg?itok=HfObnzHb\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The CEOs of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Paramount Global discussed a potential merger on Tuesday, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/12\/20\/warner-bros-paramount-merger-discovery-streaming\">Axios<\/a> citing &#8220;multiple&#8221; anonymous sources. No formal talks are underway yet, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/warner-and-paramount-ceos-discussed-possible-merger-of-companies-ec2fdab2\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. But the discussions look like the start of consolidation discussions for the media industry during a tumultuous time of forced evolution.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Axios reported that WBD head David Zaslav and Paramount head Bob Bakish met in Paramount&#8217;s New York City headquarters for &#8220;several hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zaslav and Shari Redstone, owner of Paramount&#8217;s parent company National Amusements Inc (NAI), have also spoken, Axios claimed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1992627#p3\">Read 22 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1992627&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1992627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debt-laden Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount consider merger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Media firms are looking for allies to help them take the coveted media throne. (credit: Warner Bros. Discovery) The CEOs of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Paramount Global discussed a potential merger on Tuesday, according to a report &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1213866\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1213866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}