Skydance's David Ellison plans to merge Paramount+ and HBO Max, a pairing he puts at over 200 million subscribers, now that the Warner Bros. deal has closed. The company says it carries roughly $80 billion of debt, so that scale has to turn into cash.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 7%
- Operator
- Operator 43%
- Investor
- Investor 50%
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Disney, ABC and eight owned stations sued the FCC and Brendan Carr in Washington, asking a judge to stop an early license review before it becomes a hearing.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 7%
- Operator
- Operator 59%
- Investor
- Investor 34%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence68
Guidance issued in January told broadcasters that late-night and daytime talk shows are not necessarily exempt from equal time, and since then two networks have kept the same Senate candidate off air.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives65
- Confidence65
Twelve states settle the $111bn Paramount case for a CNN board and 30 releases a year
The twelve attorneys general leave with two promises they will have to police themselves, and Free Press says parts of the deal ask less of Paramount than the two companies already do separately.
Reality
- Evidence33
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives76
- Confidence41
Paramount says the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar will take its indirect foreign ownership to 49.5 percent. The FCC approved that. The purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery still waits on a March antitrust trial.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
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- Builder 12%
- Operator
- Operator 47%
- Investor
- Investor 41%
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives78
- Confidence66
Iran's negotiators want out; the Guard does not. The oil premium now tracks a factional fight
Pezeshkian and Ghalibaf say the war must end. The IRGC says fight to the end, and it used the 60-day talks lull to prepare for more combat.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives66
- Confidence33