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Delivery of film, series and live programming over the internet through subscription, ad-supported and hybrid services.
Paramount closed its $111 billion purchase of all Warner Bros. Discovery assets on October 6 and renamed the merged company Skydance. Netflix bid only for the studios and streaming, so CNN now shares an owner with HBO Max and CBS.
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Netflix plans to cut about 5% of its roughly 16,000 full-time staff, around 800 jobs, as soon as next week, Puck News reported. The cut comes in a profitable year, and the teams that lose people will show whether Netflix is funding new bets or protecting its margin.
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David Ellison's Skydance closed its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery carrying roughly $80 billion of debt. The terms that cleared the deal leave staff and the overlap between HBO Max and Paramount+ as the likeliest sources of savings.
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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.
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Paramount Skydance closed its $110bn Warner Bros Discovery merger with $80bn of debt and a $6bn yearly savings target. Its settlement with US states covers films and news, while streaming prices and jobs stay its own call.
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Skydance now owns Warner Bros and Paramount, cutting Hollywood's major studios from five to four and putting HBO, CBS and CNN under one owner. Writers and directors feel the lost buyer first, while cable distributors and streaming subscribers meet the combined company later.
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Paramount is set to close its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger on October 6 as Skydance, under a settlement requiring 30 theatrical films a year. Households paying for both HBO Max and Paramount+ keep two apps for now, with no announced price or date for the merged service.
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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos calls growth too slow with engagement up 2%, while about $1 billion of a $20 billion content budget goes to live shows. He says that money is for winning and keeping subscribers and selling ads, so hours watched is the wrong test of it.
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Apple TV was still down for some users after Apple restored the App Store, Music and Fitness+ from its September 30 outage, according to MacRumors. Apple's status page calls it scheduled maintenance. The entry gives no return time and does not say which screens still play it.
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The third trailer debuts to subscribers before it reaches YouTube. That six-hour lead turns a streaming service into a launch channel, and it buys Rockstar a window nobody can enforce against anyone with a capture card.
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The Verge's Charles Pulliam-Moore argues that streamers are re-creating cable from first principles. The evidence he offers is interface design, and that is what decides how a product team should read it.
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Disney has decided its streaming business is better run by one executive than by two. The memo announcing the change argues the case in the language of decision speed.
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