{"id":2308477,"date":"2026-03-02T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2308477"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:09:23","slug":"david-ellison-talks-warners-deal-this-is-not-about-consolidation-this-is-about-reinventing-the-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/david-ellison-talks-warners-deal-this-is-not-about-consolidation-this-is-about-reinventing-the-business\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ellison Talks Warners Deal: \u201cThis Is Not About Consolidation, This Is About Reinventing the Business\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> wants to forge a modern media and entertainment empire, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> will become its centerpiece.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a> on Monday spoke for the first time about the $110 billion mega-deal, which will see the smaller company, backed by tens of billions from his father <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0255213\/\">Larry Ellison<\/a> and tens of billions in debt from a consortium of lenders, swallow the larger one.<\/p>\n<p>The result will be a behemoth, with two major film studios (Paramount and Warner Bros.) a jumble of TV studios, two major streaming services in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0754095\/\">HBO Max<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0820547\/\">Paramount+<\/a>, and a stable of TV channels that will include <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0009512\/\">TNT<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0165168\/\">celebrity.land<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0066916\/\">MTV<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0007546\/\">Nickelodeon<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0004908\/\">HGTV<\/a> and many more that will make it a formidable player in the declining but lucrative pay-tv business. It will be a major sports player, and will combine two TV news giants in celebrity.land and CBS.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison outlined the deal as being&#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>David Ellison wants to forge a modern media and entertainment empire, and Warner Bros. Discovery will become its centerpiece. The CEO of Paramount on Monday spoke for the first time about the $110 billion mega-deal, which will see the smaller company, backed by tens of billions from his father Larry Ellison and tens of billions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2308478,"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-2308477","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\/03\/David-Ellison-Talks-Warners-Deal-This-Is-Not-About-Consolidation.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308477","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=2308477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308479,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308477\/revisions\/2308479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}