Merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Will Be a ‘Streaming Powerhouse,’ Wall Street Analysts Say — but Saddled With More Than $77 Billion in Debt

By Todd Spangler

Todd Spangler

NY Digital Editor

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• Merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Will Be a ‘Streaming Powerhouse,’ Wall Street Analysts Say — but Saddled With More Than $77 Billion in Debt 18 minutes ago
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• David Ellison Says Paramount Hopes to Close Warner Bros. Deal in ‘Approximately Two Weeks’; Studios to Remain in California 21 hours ago

Paramount Skydance’s David Ellison has prevailed in his dogged pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery: He’s won the deal. Now comes the hard part: making the economics of the combined company work, given an extremely high debt load of the combined media company.

Following the announcement of Paramount’s settlement with the 12 Democratic state attorneys general resolving their antitrust case to block the WBD deal, the merger is set to close with about two weeks, Ellison wrote in a staff memo Monday.

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