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Mediagazer - 2026-03-01T12:01:14-05:00

Inside the Podcast Business Summit and interviews with Kara Swisher, Adam Friedland, and others about how video podcasts won over audio, paywalls, ads, and more (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-01T12:00:05-05:00

Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-01T02:00:00-05:00

Sources: Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters held a town hall to explain Netflix's decision to withdraw from the WBD bid; the town hall excluded a Q&A session (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline) - 2026-02-28T23:25:01-05:00

Sources: WBD staff are bracing for widespread layoffs as David Ellison wants $6B in "synergies"; the internal mood is grim as staff preferred Netflix's proposal (New York Times) - 2026-02-28T21:15:00-05:00

UK minister Josh Simons resigns over allegations that a think tank he led has probed some journalists and falsely linked them to a "pro-Kremlin" network (Henry Dyer/The Guardian) - 2026-02-28T13:35:00-05:00

Cinema operators are relieved Paramount won WBD due to its support for theatrical releases, but skeptical about its plans to increase output and sustain windows (Rebecca Rubin/Variety) - 2026-02-28T06:30:04-05:00

How Paramount's David Ellison deployed financial backing and political lobbying, including his well-connected chief legal adviser, to beat Netflix and win WBD (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-27T18:20:03-05:00

SEO agency Clickout bought The Escapist and two other UK-based gaming sites, fired and replaced staff with AI, and filled the sites with content about casinos (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette) - 2026-02-27T17:55:00-05:00

The FCC approves Charter's $34.5B merger with Cox, combining cable, fiber, and cloud units, and taking the Cox name and using Spectrum for consumer business (Ted Johnson/Deadline) - 2026-02-27T17:10:02-05:00

Paramount agrees to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - 2026-02-27T16:53:58-05:00

One analyst says European regulators are unlikely to block a Paramount-WBD deal; another says it's likely that regulators would slow down the approval process (Deadline) - 2026-02-27T15:50:03-05:00

Paramount pays the $2.8B breakup fee owed to Netflix; NFLX closes up 13.8%, and PSKY closes up 20.8% (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-27T15:29:14-05:00

Memo: another CBS News producer leaves, after 46 years, and says, "We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian) - 2026-02-27T15:20:01-05:00

CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure (CNN) - 2026-02-27T14:15:02-05:00

The international film community sees Paramount's potential WBD acquisition with optimism for theatrical windows and worry about a reduced number of film buyers (Variety) - 2026-02-27T13:20:02-05:00

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