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  • First it was Time in 1990, then AOL then AT&T then Discovery and now this. That's 5 owners since 90 for Warner Brothers and none of those really worked out well. I don't know enough to know if this stands a better chance, but if I was going to bet, I'd bet Warner has a new owner before 2030.
    by blakesterz
  • not a fan of CNN, but a very right leaning person is the owner of CNN now. pre-dictatorship vibes!!
    by prometheus1992
  • It's never been a better time to start consuming less. Let's drive that demand way, way down.
    by caned
  • Can this be undone in the future if folks realize it was too monopolistic and it was in fact an anti-trust violation?

    I wonder if David Ellison is a fun guy IRL.

    by bigwheels
  • How long until the US just has The Media Company that controls nearly all high-budget mass media and film industries in that country?
    by tavavex
  • A behemoth indeed but the numbers also tell an interesting story. For TV screen share, Youtube has ~13% of total US viewing time vs ~6% for Paramount/Warner. They also go into this merger with staggering debt which does not bode well.
    by dkobia
  • This is more consolidation of US media under extremely pro-Israel ownership. I don't think this will work out as well as they hope (look at CBS -- Bari Weiss has driven it into the ground) but it's scary how much US media a foreign adversary now has direct editorial control over, including both "news" and "entertainment", including TikTok.

    https://www.972mag.com/ellisons-paramount-tiktok-israel-medi...

    by slowin
  • Nilay Patel: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1004286/senator-adam-schiff...

    > One of the longest-running tropes at The Verge is that a workable antitrust policy for the United States would be simply to forbid companies from buying Time Warner because it has never worked and it may never work again, and that we should just pass one law.

    Checks out:

    Jan 11, 2001: AOL and Time Warner merged to create AOL Time Warner

    June 14, 2018: AT&T acquired Time Warner, renamed WarnerMedia

    April 8, 2022: WarnerMedia spun out of AT&T, merged with Discovery

    by simonw

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