Going hostile

Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington looks at Paramount's $108bn hostile bid, as the battle for Warner Brothers continues to heat up.

Elsewhere, he'll be discussing a bill on railways that returns to Parliament today which could see passengers buying tickets directly from the government.

And, he'll take a look at some new data that shows just how much money shoppers have been spending in the last month.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay? It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip-christmas bangers every day. Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy. Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:39.8	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money in the next episode.
0:43.6	It's like something from a certain HBO drama.
0:46.7	It'll be hostile, hastle, hastle, hastle.
0:49.1	That's a clip from Succession, of course, one of Warner Brothers' most successful series.
0:55.0	But now, Paramount Skydance has launched a mega $108 billion bid itself to hijack Netflix's takeover deal.
1:05.0	We're going to speak to specialist lawyers about where this goes next, former industry executives about what it is. Paramount
1:12.8	could well be bringing what could happen to make the deal work one way or another. Elsewhere,
1:18.0	a government-owned rail service will become one step closer to reality today as the railway
1:24.1	bill returns to Parliament. We'll be asking what that could mean for passengers
1:28.6	and we'll dive into some new data that shows how much money we've been spending in the last month.
1:34.2	Wake up to money with Sean Farrington.
1:37.2	Good morning to you. Wake up to money on BBC Five Live.
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