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Getty Images Over an intense six-week period last fall, Netflix went from an initial phone call between co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav to sealing an $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros.’ streaming and studios business. But even after being repeatedly rebuffed David Ellison refused to give up, and ultimately his Paramount Skydance outbid Netflix with an $111 billion offer for the entirety of WBD.
So the news Monday that Comcast plans to carve off NBCUniversal (together with Sky) as an independently traded entity immediately made people wonder: Would Netflix go back to the M&A trenches to try to win a deal for NBCU?
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