🎧 EMERGENCY POD: WBD’s Endgame Era Begins
Suitors, stakes, deals and drama — it’s suddenly all on the table
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Another week, another industry-warping Hollywood shake-up. As Warner Bros. Discovery plants a “For Sale” sign in its yard, a Streaming Wars endgame is being unleashed. Is the billionaire class going to snap its fingers, Thanos-style, and squeeze the number of major studios through another round of M&A? Or is salvation coming instead for a storied studio? Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey break down which suitors make sense, why a Paramount-Warner Bros. mashup would become the rival Netflix has never had and which assets are most enticing, fantasy-draft style. Plus: Richard Rushfield stops by to weigh in on Zazpocalypse Now.
Truly shocking to me that no one wanted CNN!
It’s not shiny but it is a ‘down the middle’ news network (and now “All-Access” digital base).
Speculative, but there’s a case to be made for that asset— specifically to own the audience. Seems like a ‘buy’ for outlets planning a competitive move in news media (think Comcast which just distanced itself from left-leaning Versant, or Paramount, openly devising a play for the center…)