{"id":2236176,"date":"2026-01-15T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2236176"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:23:28","slug":"paramount-and-netflix-bidding-war-how-much-is-warners-cable-business-really-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paramount-and-netflix-bidding-war-how-much-is-warners-cable-business-really-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount and Netflix Bidding War: How Much Is Warner\u2019s Cable Business Really Worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The multi-billion-dollar war over the legendary media company <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1037501\/\">Discovery<\/a> may, unexpectedly, come down to how much the old, dying cable business called Discovery Global is actually worth.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a> CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> argues that Discovery Global \u2014 made up of cable networks like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1029640\/\">celebrity.land<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0688123\/\">TBS<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0078256\/\">Food Network<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0962918\/\">HGTV<\/a> \u2014 is worth somewhere between nothing and 50 cents per share. Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s board disagrees, pegging it closer to $3 to $5 per share, based on estimates from some Wall Street analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Who is right? Financial analysts who spoke to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0569744\/\">TheWrap<\/a> lean towards <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0423665\/\">Warner<\/a>\u2019s calculation, arguing that Discovery Global holds more equity value than Paramount is letting on. That\u2019s especially the&#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>The multi-billion-dollar war over the legendary media company Warner Bros. Discovery may, unexpectedly, come down to how much the old, dying cable business called Discovery Global is actually worth. Paramount CEO David Ellison argues that Discovery Global \u2014 made up of cable networks like celebrity.land, TBS, Food Network and HGTV \u2014 is worth somewhere between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2236177,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2236176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","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\/2026\/01\/Paramount-and-Netflix-Bidding-War-How-Much-Is-Warners-Cable.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236176","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=2236176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236178,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236176\/revisions\/2236178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}