{"id":16800,"date":"2025-12-16T23:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/warner-bros-discovery-preparing-to-tell-shareholders-back-netflix-deal-over-paramount\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:20:20","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-preparing-to-tell-shareholders-back-netflix-deal-over-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/warner-bros-discovery-preparing-to-tell-shareholders-back-netflix-deal-over-paramount\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery preparing to tell shareholders: Back Netflix deal over Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the massive media conglomerate that owns HBO, BLN and a number of other top brands in news and entertainment, is preparing to advise its top shareholders to reject a bid from Paramount to buy the company and back a planned deal with Netflix instead&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5652023-netflix-warner-deal-paramount-bid\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the massive media conglomerate that owns HBO, BLN and a number of other top brands in news and entertainment, is preparing to advise its top shareholders to reject a bid from Paramount to buy the company and back a planned deal with Netflix instead&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}