“This Could KILL CNN” - Paramount-Warner Merger Creates 200M Subscriber Streaming GIANT
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery explore combining Paramount+ and HBO Max into a 200M subscriber streaming giant. The panel debates whether the merger can challenge Netflix, what happens to CNN, and why the old cable news model may be dying.
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| 0:15.1 | So Paramount merger could create streaming behemoth with 200 million subscribers. |
| 0:22.5 | And if they combine HBO Max Paramount to challenge Netflix, |
| 0:26.3 | which would be the plan. |
| 0:28.3 | Rob, is this the update of the news? |
| 0:31.2 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:31.6 | Go for it. |
| 0:32.3 | Paramount Skydance announcing plans to combine Paramount Plus and HBO Max. |
| 0:37.2 | Just three days ago, HBO's parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery, agreed to be acquired by Paramount. |
| 0:43.8 | CEO David Ellison says the combination will boost their subscriber base to 200 million. |
| 0:49.8 | Federal regulators still need to approve that merger. |
| 0:52.6 | That's a real number right there while this is taking place. |
| 0:55.6 | And Paramount debt to its $79 billion after Warner Brothers deal, no plan to sell cable assets. |
| 1:02.9 | And Warner Brothers, Discovery CEO Zaslov calls Paramount Pivot, whiplashy as $110 billion deal takes shape. |
| 1:09.5 | So which clip is this, Rob? This is about the $79 billion debt. That's okay. So Tom, as we're going through this next phase, do you think there's going to be anything that's going to prevent this from happening or it's pretty much Paramount's property? That's it. Well, if you hear, if you listen to Netflix and Ted surrendos, well, I didn't end up meeting at the White House, |
| 1:27.5 | and I think the president had his thumb on the scale. |
| 1:29.9 | Come on, Ted. You know, that's loser talk. That's you didn't get the deal. You didn't get it done. Ted said that? Yeah. He didn't say thumb on the scale. He said they had favor with the White House. They're meeting with the White House. I don't know what you want me to do. |
| 1:43.0 | We always had our number. |
| 1:45.7 | This is what we had to do. |
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