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From: Ron10/22/2025 9:15:28 AM
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Potential Suitors for Warner Brothers/Discovery (The Paramount bid is around $24 for the whole thing)

The entertainment giant that’s part-Big Five Hollywood studio and part-Deadliest Catch is considering a sale after receiving interest from “multiple parties” that presumably stood outside its window with a boombox, Warner Bros. Discovery announced yesterday.

The statement sent WBD stock to its highest point since the days after WarnerMedia and Discovery joined forces in 2022. In typical Hollywood fashion, that marriage is already coming undone: WBD said earlier this year that it plans to split into two entities—one for its coveted studios and streaming businesses like HBO Max, and another for lagging TV networks like CNN.

One guy wants it all: Fresh off his own merger, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison (Larry’s son) is trying to buy WBD before it unmerges, but WBD CEO David Zaslav believes he can maximize shareholder value by selling each half separately, according to Bloomberg.

Meet the potential suitorsParamount reportedly made multiple offers for WBD’s entire operation in recent weeks that were rejected for being too low. A successful bid would bring CNN under the same roof as CBS, which is now run by Bari Weiss following Paramount’s acquisition of The Free Press this month.

Other possible bidders include:

  • Netflix. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has expressed interest in the iconic Warner Bros. studio and content library, though decidedly not its cable TV networks, Bloomberg reported. But Greg Peters, the other co-CEO, shrugged off the idea earlier this month.
  • Comcast. The NBCUniversal owner, which is also spinning off some cable channels, is reportedly taking a look at WBD’s assets.
  • Apple and Amazon. Executives and analysts expect tech companies like them to be enticed by the opportunity to snatch up HBO Max, though Apple exec Eddy Cue has thrown cold water on the idea of the iPhone-maker buying WBD.
Zoom out: WBD is keeping its options open, but the pool of interested parties suggests that the entertainment industry is likely headed for more consolidation.

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