{"id":2148952,"date":"2025-11-11T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2148952"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:30:27","slug":"is-paramount-buying-wbd-5-takeaways-from-the-first-post-merger-earnings-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/is-paramount-buying-wbd-5-takeaways-from-the-first-post-merger-earnings-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Paramount Buying Wbd? 5 Takeaways From the First Post-Merger Earnings Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">With just two months under its belt, the new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a> executive team led by CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> made its first Wall Street appearance on an earnings conference call Monday and laid out a vision for a $1.5 billion investment in entertainment and sports \u2014 and another $1 billion in cost savings.<\/p>\n<p>Shares rose 5% in after-hours trading when the news came out.<\/p>\n<p>While the call was brief, with a lot of talk of \u201cNorth Stars\u201d and promises to invest in content and infrastructure, the reality of its challenges loomed \u2014 which includes layoffs of as many as 2,000 employees. Paramount posted a third-quarter loss of $257 million, or 37 cents a share. Even adjusting for one-time items, the company lost $24 million,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just two months under its belt, the new Paramount executive team led by CEO David Ellison made its first Wall Street appearance on an earnings conference call Monday and laid out a vision for a $1.5 billion investment in entertainment and sports \u2014 and another $1 billion in cost savings. Shares rose 5% in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2148952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Is-Paramount-Buying-Wbd-5-Takeaways-From-the-First-Post-Merger.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148954,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148952\/revisions\/2148954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}