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Merger Madness and How to Stop It
19 Dec 2025 22:23 GMT
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No evidence of any merger benefits
Netflix and Warner Bros … created WBD itself or AOL Time Warner, for that matter? Where’ … the bidding war began: “Merger after merger in the media industry has … lose the most from this merger — and investigate what these …
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WBD Board Slams Paramount Skydance Bid as ‘Illusory’ in Epic Merger Showdown
19 Dec 2025 21:17 GMT
… terms in a pending Netflix merger valued at around $72 billion … biggest wildcard. A Paramount-WBD merger would commandeer 25% of U … 2019’s AT&T-Time Warner saga, but with streaming at … Bloomberg insights suggest the Netflix merger could unlock $5 billion in …
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The Netflix–Warner Bros. Merger Is a Broadside Attack on Workers
19 Dec 2025 16:20 GMT
… that a Paramount–Warner Bros. merger could result in “one … plain statement of fact: Corporate mergers are rarely marked by employees … amp;T’s acquisition of Time Warner, the latter of which led … of a Warner Bros. merger for entertainment workers should be …
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Netflix Swears Its Warner Bros. Shopping Spree Isn’t Another AOL Time Warner Disaster
08 Dec 2025 17:48 GMT
… studio’s legendary history of mergers gone wrong, you can imagine … carries the scars of AOL Time Warner’s implosion back in 2000 … publicly warned that big media mergers usually don’t turn out … off. “Historically, many of these mergers haven’t worked. Some have …
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Netflix Execs Say Warner Bros. Deal Is No AOL Time Warner Fiasco In The Making
05 Dec 2025 14:41 GMT
… among them the 2000 merger of AOL and Time Warner. AT&T … ’s $85 billion takeover of Time Warner … the checkered history of media mergers. Sarandos explained, “It wasn … .
“Historically, many of these mergers haven’t worked,” he said …
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Howie Klein, Top Executive at Sire and Reprise Records, DJ and Political Activist, Dies at 77
25 Dec 2025 17:28 GMT
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In 2001, following Time Warner’s ill-fated merger with AOL, Klein accepted …
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Bigger Isn't Always Better: Why Media Mega Mergers Are No Substitute for Vision and Innovation
10 Dec 2025 16:19 GMT
… — or WarnerMedia or Time Warner or AOL Time Warner, as the company has … CNN and Turner Broadcasting, Time Warner became media’s equivalent … worked at Time Warner in the early 1990s. “Time Warner had all … announce the AOL-Time Warner merger in January 2001)
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“Merger Madness”: Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.
09 Dec 2025 15:29 GMT
… regulators who must approve any merger. On Sunday night, prior … article is headlined “Stop the Merger Madness.” Free Press has also … to AOL Time Warner. We’ve had AT&T and Time Warner — all … Unbelievable.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: — on this merger one way or the other …
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The Netflix and Warner Bros. tie-up is not a done deal. What could stop this merger
09 Dec 2025 15:15 GMT
It was just last Friday that Netflix announced a blockbuster $72-billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max — a tie-up that could fundamentally change Hollywood.
Yet on Monday, the stakes got even higher, as Paramount …
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Paramount punches it out for Warner Bros. merger
09 Dec 2025 09:05 GMT
… President Donald Trump placing the merger squarely at the center of … .
After the Netflix-WBD merger plan was announced on Friday … that a Paramount Skydance-WBD merger would create an antitrust … opposed the AT&T-Time Warner merger, arguing that HBO and its …