Netflix & Bill
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Will Bain discusses the Employment Rights Bill as it heads back to the Commons.
Elsewhere, he'll look ahead to the first day of trading for the brand new Magnum Ice Cream Company and check out some of the details in the $72 BILLION deal made by Netflix to buy Warner Bros.
And, he'll find out what's next for Lando Norris and the new sponsorship deals that could be heading his way after his F1 triumph.
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| 0:36.2 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:39.8 | Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:42.1 | As the employment rights bill returns to Parliament today, we'll discuss the speculation around new proposals that would lift the cap on compensation for those who've been found who've been sacked unfairly. |
| 0:52.6 | Also, today we'll look ahead to the first day of trading for the brand new |
| 0:55.6 | Magnum Ice Cream Company as it's spun out from its parent Unilever. |
| 1:00.4 | Also, this will be a familiar noise to many of you. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 1:06.8 | We'll hear about the $70 billion plusplus deal made by Netflix to buy Warner Brothers |
| 1:11.6 | and why it might be already facing some trouble. And finally, we'll ask what next for |
| 1:16.1 | Lando Norris and the new sponsorship deals that could be heading his way after his maiden |
| 1:20.9 | F-1 World Championship triumph. |
| 1:24.7 | Wake Up to Money with Will Bade. Yeah, morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money on Monday the 8th of December, just on 5 o'clock in the morning. We're with you this morning. Great to have you as we kick off another week here on the program and lots to get to this morning. Lots of big corporate news, actually, rather than some of the economics that we've had over the last few weeks, that big deal between Netflix and Warner Brothers and whether it is good for customers, whether it will ever go ahead. |
| 1:48.7 | What it might mean for us, the US antitrust body already sounds like it may well be taking a look. |
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