Paramount Skydance’s management says there aren’t any plans to divest or spinoff cable belongings after merging with Warner Bros. Discovery for $110 billion.
The deal will see the 2 firms management an enormous portfolio of cable and free-to-air networks, together with CBS, CNN, HBO, TNT, Meals Community, HGTV, MTV, Comedy Central, Discovery Channel and rather more.
“We imagine within the belongings that we’re shopping for and there’s no plans to divest or spin off a bundle of cable belongings at the moment,” Paramount chief technique officer Andy Gordon instructed analysts on Monday. “We really assume, given the manufacturers that Warner Brothers is bringing to Paramount, they’ve a number of alternatives to consider all of the totally different elements of what they’ll do each on the linear facet and the digital facet.”
CEO David Ellison added that the mixture would preserve the 2 firms’ linear community portfolio more healthy for “considerably longer than they might be on a standalone enterprise.”
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