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Business Wars Daily

A Merger May Shake Up the Streaming Wars

Business Wars Daily

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Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today is Tuesday, March 22, and we're looking at Warner Bros. Media vs. Netflix vs. Disney.

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You know how we always say the streaming wars just keep heating up? Well,

1:12.5

they're about to get slightly less competitive. That's after the announcement of a $43 billion

1:18.3

merger between Discovery and Warner Media, which is slated to close sometime in April. The new Warner

1:24.6

Brothers Media, could they have gotten a bit more creative with the title? I mean, come on.

1:29.1

Anyway, the new Warner Brothers Media will pull together names like HBO Max, DC Films, Discovery Plus, and HGTV under one gigantic umbrella.

1:40.2

And it'll roll out a new mega app. Discovery Chief David Zoslav will serve as president,

1:45.6

according to variety, while the current Warner Media CEO is expected to step down. After the merger

1:51.8

is complete next month, the new company will be shouldering a lot of debt. But Discovery's CFO

1:57.2

Gunner Weidenfels says, uh, that's all right for now. The immediate goal for Warner

2:03.1

Brothers Media, he said, is to harmonize the two technology platforms and do away with costly

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