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Paramount Skydance wants WBD

I got one of those tender offers too, but I refused it. I only have a handful, so their offer wouldn't have amounted to much anyway.

This will be the second time I've taken money from them. Last April, they offered $23 a share for my Paramount Global stock, and I took it. Had I stayed with them, it peaked at $20 a share in September, and is now under $12 a share. So I'm happy. I just want out of dying media companies. I said last month in post #180 I'd take the money, so when the offer was made, that's what I did. If he's giving away money, I'm happy to accept.
 
While I would prefer neither Netflix nor Paramount to buy WBD, if for no other reason than to preserve a little bit of diversity, if a sale must happen, I'd rather WBD go to Netflix, because they're just doing business. As I've said before, the way Paramount is going about this feels dirty.

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Netflix sweetens the deal to all-cash---and wants to peel off TCM from the cable assets that will be spun off to Discovery Global:
Glad to hear about TCM because if Netflix bought the WBD film library currently owned by WBD and didn’t keep TCM, then TCM would have no film library to draw upon and with no commercials would not have the funds to license films from other sources.
 
Barry Diller wants to peel CNN off from WBD. Essential pull-quote:

“CNN is an incredibly important part of the future of Discovery Global once it separates from Warner Bros. CNN was not and is not for sale,” a WBD spokesperson said in response to the Journal report.

Which just underlines WBD's opposition to Paramount's attempts at a hostile take-over, which would include CNN.

 
Before they bought Warner Media, they were consistently a very profitable company. The thing that killed them was the debt. Selling the studio would solve most of the debt problem.
Buying the Hearst networks didn’t help either. They have more watered down channels now. Too much overlap in content.
 


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