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Discovery, Warner Media merger in the works.

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Discovery+, HBO Max may bundle before combining after merger

Discovery and WarnerMedia are on track to finalize their merger in mid-2022 but it may be a while before Discovery+ and HBO Max combine to become a single platform. | Discovery and WarnerMedia are on track to finalize their merger in mid-2022 but it may be a while before Discovery+ and HBO Max...
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Talks for a bundle approach is coming to HBO Max, Discovery+ if the deal is finalized.
 
And TNT seeing AEW Rampage getting lower and lower ratings at 10pm on Fridays will either see the show cancelled or moved in a last attempt to boost it's ratings since AEW Dynamite is going to TBS next month.
 
TVCOOL said:
And TNT seeing AEW Rampage getting lower and lower ratings at 10pm on Fridays will either see the show cancelled or moved in a last attempt to boost it's ratings since AEW Dynamite is going to TBS next month.
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that time slot itself is a death slot and there's also the fact that there's fans of both companies that have to switch from a 2 hour WWE SmackDown on Fox for 1 hour AEW Rampage after it and some wrestling fans get the spoiler for pre-taped Rampage episodes, and at this point, Rampage is just a gloried AEW Dark/Dark Elevation with matches too big for those 2 AEW Youtube shows and not big enough for the live 2 hour Dynamite. the perfect solution is simple, move it to Saturdays and have it in a time slot that is nostalgic for 90s wrestling fans, air Rampage on Saturday evenings, and on PPV weekends where there's a Saturday AEW PPV, have it be the pre-show instead of "The Buy In" since the show has the 1998-mid 1999 Sunday Night Heat feel.
 
variety.com

Discovery Shareholders Approve $43 Billion WarnerMedia Merger

Discovery investors voted in approval of the company's $43 billion acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T during a shareholders meeting.
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Management changes at Discovery and the approval of the merger among Discovery shareholders.

Discovery chief David Zaslav will serve as president and CEO of the newly merged company, Warner Bros. Discovery, with WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar expected to exit. Zaslav’s first major hire for WBD was Chris Licht as the new chief of CNN, following the ousting of Jeff Zucker after a WarnerMedia investigation found he hadn’t disclosed a consensual relationship with now-exited CNN marketing chief Allison Gollust.

Discovery ended 2021 with $4 billion in cash on its books, and it generated some $2.4 billion in free cash flow for the year. Warner Bros. Discovery will shoulder significant debt after the transaction is complete, with Discovery executives vowing to reduce the leverage ratio from about 4.5 times earnings immediately after the deal closes to 2.5 to 3 times earnings within two years. At close of the WarnerMedia spinoff, AT&T expects to reap $43 billion (and the new WBD to assume up approximately $43 billion of additional debt). AT&T aims to use the proceeds from the WarnerMedia spinoff to pay down net debt, which stood at $156.2 billion at the end of 2021.
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Mikey Radio said:
www.cnbc.com

AT&T in advanced talks to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery, deal expected as soon as Monday

AT&T and Discovery will announce a deal to merge Discovery and WarnerMedia as soon as tomorrow, sources say.
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Through its WarnerMedia unit, AT&T owns CNN, HBO, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT and the Warner Bros. studio. Discovery controls networks such as HGTV, Food Network, TLC and Animal Planet.
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Some of those networks acquired from Scripps Networks, which has a big presence in Knoxville T N. It seems that most creative positions were moved away from Knoxville, and they seemed to hire hundreds of accountants in their place. Discovery sponsors some local events, a Shark Week event for the kids for one
 
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Do you think Discovery will give AEW another TV deal in two years or not?
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yes, unless they hire the type of people who run networks who hated wrestling on their networks like Jamie Kellner (he's the guy who handed WCW it's death blow), and Dawn Ostroff who decided that wrestling had no place on the CW in 2008 never mind the fact it she along with the Wrestling were retained by the CW when UPN & The WB merged to formed The CW to begin with. at least we don't have to worry about Tony Khan sending e-mails accidently to people in charge of the network insulting the network, just like how then TNA Wrestling (now Impact Wrestling ) President Dixie Carter did in 2015 during it's short live run on Destination America which ironically is one of the channels that's a part of one the companies involved in this merger.
 
Wow i bet Discovery will take a hard look at their channels on what programs that have low ratings to cancel (see AEW Rampage)
 
Why pay $6 a month for CNN+ when ABC, CBS, and NBC stream their news channels for free?
 
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