<\/p>\n
BURBANK, Calif. \u2014 California lawmakers raised concerns about the proposed $111 billion merger between Warner Bros. and Paramount during a hearing Friday at Burbank City Hall, which is home to thousands of employees and businesses that rely on the storied studio to make a living.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Members of Congress, including Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura Friedman, questioned whether the deal could lead to layoffs and reduce competition in an industry already facing a production slowdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As regulators review the merger, which is aiming to close in 6 to 18 months, the outcome could shape the future of Hollywood jobs and the entertainment millions of Americans watch.<\/p>\n
Click the arrow above to watch the full video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumnews1.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BURBANK, Calif. \u2014 California lawmakers raised concerns about the proposed $111 billion merger between Warner Bros. and Paramount during a hearing Friday at Burbank City Hall, which is home to thousands of employees and businesses that rely on the storied studio to make a living.\u00a0 Members of Congress, including Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2340300,"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":[25172],"tags":[22694,437060,22691,21741,21738,22048,451209,352834,71501],"class_list":["post-2340299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-california","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CA-lawmakers-question-Warner-Bros-Paramount-merger.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340299","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=2340299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340301,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340299\/revisions\/2340301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2340300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}