Warner Bros Discovery's board could announce a decision as early as Wednesday on Paramount Skydance's $108.4 billion takeover bid, with the board likely to advise shareholders to vote against the offe... ...

本文源自：金融界AI电报 据华尔街日报：消息人士表示，华纳兄弟探索公司(WBD.O)将告知股东，最早将于周三拒绝派拉蒙的收 购提议，将向股东推荐现有与奈飞(NFLX.O)的交易。 ...

The majority stake of the Los Angeles Lakers was sold this year in a deal that valued the team at $10 billion. Star forward Lebron James (23) is pictured here. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) As the end of 2025 approaches, it is abundantly clear this has been a year hot with big media and sports deals. And it's a trend that should spill into the new year. Consulting firm PwC (formerly Price Waterhouse Coopers) on Tuesday released its annual outlook for deal activity in the media and telecommunications ...

12月16日，奈飞两名首席执行官就公司收购拥有HBO频道等的华纳兄弟探索一事阐述立场，承诺维持 华纳兄弟电影于院线上映，回应市场担心奈飞会优先采取串流平台先行的模式。 Greg Peters及Ted Sarandos于周一致函员工，承诺不会出现业务重叠或关闭制片厂，以回应外界关注该 宗大型交易将削减职位。市场亦关注监管机构会否批准交易，Peters及Sarandos引用尼尔森的收视数据 指出，奈飞与华纳兄弟合并后的观看市占率，仍将低于YouTube，亦低于派拉蒙与华纳兄弟潜在合并的 情况。 美股频道更多独家策划、专家专栏，免费查阅>> 责任编辑：栎树 ...

Dealmakers are heading into the final weeks of 2025 on a $100 billion cliffhanger.Paramount Skydance Corp.’s hostile bid to snatch Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. from under the nose of Netflix Inc. encapsulates the themes that have shaped a banner year for mergers and acquisitions: renewed desire for transformative tie-ups, massive checks from Wall Street, the flow of Middle East money and US President Donald Trump’s role as both disruptor and dealmaker.Global transaction values have risen around 40% to about ...

Netflix Inc. co-Chief Executive Officers Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos tried to reassure employees’ concerns about the company’s bid for much of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., reiterating that there is no business overlap and therefore won’t be any studio closures.“This is going to be a complex process over the next year or so,” the executives said in a letter posted to the company’s internal blog and published in a securities filing.Netflix’s $82.7 billion bid for Warner Bros. streaming and studios businesses ...

Would buying Warner Bros. give Netflix too much power? The streaming giant is telling regulators it won't, and antitrust experts say the answer ultimately depends on how you define who Netflix competes with.Does Netflix compete with only paid streaming services, a market where it dominates? What about the TV dinosaurs it disrupted, or the social video services nipping at its heels? Could sleep even be a competitor, as its cofounder Reed Hastings famously suggested? Rival suitor Paramount Skydance has slam ...

Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters laid out their case for acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery — attempting to calm nerves in Hollywood even as they face a rival hostile bid from Paramount Skydance.In a letter to employees, the two bosses moved to ease fears over job cuts and concerns that the deal will eventually lead to the end of theatrical releases. In the past, Sarandos described going to the cinema as an “outdated” experience.“We haven’t prioritized theatrical in the past because that wasn’t ou ...

收购交易核心信息 - Netflix宣布计划以827亿美元收购华纳兄弟探索公司(WBD) [1] - 该交易在好莱坞引发震动 行业反应普遍负面 引发对就业、影院上映未来以及影视内容多样性表达的担忧 [1] 交易方声明与战略意图 - Netflix联合首席执行官Greg Peters和Ted Sarandos在致员工公开信中安抚担忧 承诺维持WBD电影的影院上映 并称将“没有业务重叠或工作室关闭” [2] - 公司高层表示“交易关乎增长” 旨在“加强好莱坞最具标志性的工作室之一 支持就业 并确保影视制作的健康未来” [2] - 为反驳垄断担忧 公司高层引用尼尔森数据称 合并后的Netflix与WBD所占收视份额将低于YouTube当前水平 也低于Paramount与WBD合并可能产生的份额 [6] 行业竞争与潜在替代方案 - Paramount曾提出1084亿美元的竞争性报价以收购WBD 表明媒体主导权之争远未结束 [7] - 据报道 WBD董事会拒绝了Paramount的收购条款 [7] 监管与行业反对声音 - 美国编剧工会(WGA)成为交易的公开反对者 认为其违反了旨在防止垄断的反垄断法 [2] - 参议员Elizabeth Warren、Bernie Sanders和Richard Blumenthal致信司法部反垄断部门 表达对娱乐业大规模合并潜在影响的担忧 [3] - 参议员们认为 合并后的新媒体巨头将拥有“比现有公司更大的市场力量来提高消费者的电视成本” 并提及Netflix去年1月已上调订阅价格 [4]

In a memo to employees divulged this morning in an SEC filing, Netflix Co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos call their pending $83B acquisition of Warner Bros. “a win for the entertainment business.” Wall Street, however, isn’t entirely convinced. One new report Monday from MoffettNathanson’s Robert Fishman urges the company not to take the bait if and when Paramount increases its hostile bid. Far better, Fishman argues, for the streaming giant to “bow out of the bidding war, put their heads down, and cont ...