Browsing: Paramount Global
In a dramatic escalation of Hollywood’s latest takeover brawl, Paramount Skydance said Monday it will launch a proxy fight at…
Netflix’s $82.7 billion rags-to-riches story: How the a DVD-by-mail company swallowed Hollywood
It’s a story so good it could have been a screenplay. In 2000, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph sat down…
‘Largest LBO in history’: Warner rejects Paramount again, scoffing at $87 billion worth of debt in its $108 billion bid
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Board of Directors has again unanimously recommended that WBD stockholders reject the revised offer from Paramount Skydance (PSKY) announced December…
I struggle with the word television. Although we continue to use that term, recent market-definition debates – including in Netflix’s…
Netflix-Paramount saga caps a 2025 turning point, S&P says: Cable TV is in the ‘decline stage’
The American media landscape has officially crossed the Rubicon, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence’s annual Economics of Basic Cable…
Trump and CBS News’ chief both tried to stop a critical ’60 Minutes’ segment from airing. Somehow it leaked online anyway
A news segment about the Trump administration’s immigration policy that was abruptly pulled from “60 Minutes” was mistakenly aired on a TV…
Tom Freston, the beat-poet exec who made MTV cool for 20 years, sees ‘really nothing in it for the consumer’ from Netflix, Warner, or his old company
Tom Freston has never been a typical media executive. Freston began with a countercultural spirit that shaped an adventurous career…
Trump turns on CBS, Kushner pulls out and Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. shows signs of collapse
Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. showed signs of unraveling just moments after President Donald Trump aired fresh grievances about…
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners is exiting from the takeover battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. The private equity firm this…
It’s a sequel, it’s a remake, it’s a reboot: Lawyers grow wistful for old corporate rumbles as Paramount, Netflix fight for Warner
Corporate-law scholars say the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery has become a strange kind of legal nostalgia trip, dragging…












