WBD Sees $2.9 Billion Q1 Loss On M&A Charges Including Termination Fee Paramount Paid Netflix

Warner Bros. Discovery posted a $2.9 billion Q1 loss that will likely be a one-time accounting blip, it hopes. It includes the termination fee Netflix paid Paramount.

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Battle For L.A.: Mayor Candidate Nithya Raman On Production Crisis, Bass Attacks, Pratt Stunts, LA28 & Paramount-WBD Merger Dangers

The two-term City Council member says she is pro-Hollywood, pro-business & wants to bring a shine back to LA if elected Mayor

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Paramount, In Request For FCC Funding OK, Notes It Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned After WBD Merger
#News #Politics #FCC #Foreignownership #Paramount #ParamountWBD #Wbd

https://deadline.com/2026/04/paramount-fcc-request-wbd-merger-middle-east-1236873732/

Paramount, In Request For FCC Funding OK, Notes It Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned After WBD Merger

Paramount has noted it will be 49.5%-owned by non-U.S. investors after completing a planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Paramount Skydance has capped CEO David Ellison's base salary at $3.5M and tied incentives to streaming profitability, just days after WBD shareholders revolted over a $700M golden parachute. #Paramount #WBD #Business #Finance #Streaming
https://blazetrends.com/paramount-skydance-caps-ceo-base-at-3-5m-as-the-111b-wbd-merger-sparks-an-executive-pay-revolt/?fsp_sid=5748
Paramount Skydance caps CEO base at $3.5M as the $111B WBD merger sparks an executive pay revolt

Paramount Skydance Corporation is aggressively tying its executive payouts to streaming profitability in the shadow of its historic $111 billion takeover of

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Congress members join protest against ‘#oligarch’s dinner’ for #Trump thrown by Ellisons

Paramount Skydance CEO fetes administration as it weighs $110bn merger with CNN parent WarnerBros Discovery

Jeremy Barr in Washington
Thu 23 Apr 2026 20.43 EDT

"Dozens of protesters, including members of Congress, gathered along the National Mall on Thursday to protest an 'intimate' dinner being held by #ParamountSkydance’s chief executive, #DavidEllison, 'in celebration of the first amendment' and 'honoring the Trump White House and CBS White House correspondents', and attended by Donald Trump.

"Paramount has faced criticism for the dinner, which has been seen by some as illustrative of the cozy relationship between the #Ellisons and the White House – right as the Trump administration is weighing whether to approve the company’s $110bn merger with CNN parent company #WarnerBrosDiscovery (#WBD). The dinner comes before Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner, which Trump will attend. His defense secretary, #PeteHegseth, is expected to sit at one of the many tables bought by CBS News for the event.

"Earlier Thursday, WBD shareholders voted 'overwhelmingly' to approve the merger, which will still require approval from the Department of Justice and European regulators.

"The US representative Jamie Raskin, who has been vocal in his criticism of the Ellisons’ ownership of CBS News, referred to the event as 'a lavish oligarch’s dinner for Donald Trump'.

" 'We’re gathered here together tonight [because] in the building behind us, David Ellison is hosting a dinner to honor President Trump, a dinner that’s designed to cement the Ellisons to the president in their years-running corrupt merger scheme,' Raskin said."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/david-ellison-trump-dinner-paramount-skydance-cnn

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/hQ6Ku

#USPol #PowerCorruptionAndLies #CorporateSuckUps #Oligarchy #Fascism #SilencingDissent #SilencingCriticism #OligarchsDinner #Oligarchs4Dinner #EatTheRich #CharacteristicsOfFascism

Congress members join protest against ‘oligarch’s dinner’ for Trump thrown by Ellisons

Paramount Skydance CEO fetes administration as it weighs $110bn merger with CNN parent WarnerBros Discovery

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California Governor Hopeful Tom Steyer Slams “Corrupt” Trump & WBD-Paramount Merger, Talks Uncapping Tax Credits, “Crazy” Steve Hilton & IATSE Support
#News #Politics #DavidEllison #DonaldTrump #GavinNewsom #IATSE #Paramount #ParamountWBD #Taxcredits #TomSteyer #Wbd

https://deadline.com/2026/04/tom-steyer-interview-1236870190/

California Governor Hopeful Tom Steyer Slams “Corrupt” Trump & WBD-Paramount Merger, Talks Uncapping Tax Credits, “Crazy” Steve Hilton & IATSE Support

In one of the most fractured gubernatorial races in California history, the hedge fund billionaire has emerged as a real contender to replace Gavin Newsom

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Today is World Book Day! (aka World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book) 📚 🔖 📖 📕 📘 📗 📙
First celebrated on 23-April-1995. A related event in Ireland & the UK is observed in March.
https://www.worldbookday.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-book-day
#Books #Copyright #Publishing #Reading #WBD #WBD2026 #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026
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Tenemos el primer póster promocional de la película de #DCStudios, #Clayface, estreno 22 de octubre solo en cines!

#WarnerBrosPictures #WBD

From the #DreyDossier:

A lot of material information (14 pages) was left out of disclosures relevant to #WarnerBrosDiscovery shareholders ahead of the upcoming vote on the #merger with #ParamountSkydance, until a shareholder sued. One wonders why.

Hint: undisclosed conflicts of interest, including foreign investment from Qatar and Saudi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfCs_dSqPRM

#wbd #Ellison #monopoly #media #uspol

the 14 pages Warner Bros. didn’t want shareholders to see

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