{"id":80579,"date":"2025-12-17T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/warner-bros-reject-paramount-bid-board-calls-offer-misleading-backs-netflix-merger\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:39:14","slug":"warner-bros-reject-paramount-bid-board-calls-offer-misleading-backs-netflix-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/warner-bros-reject-paramount-bid-board-calls-offer-misleading-backs-netflix-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros reject Paramount bid: Board calls offer misleading; backs Netflix merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s board has unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance&#8217;s $108 billion takeover bid, calling it &#8220;misleading&#8221; and &#8220;inadequate.&#8221; The board reiterated its commitment to a merger with Netflix, citing superior value and certainty. Paramount Skydance&#8217;s proposal faces significant risks and lacks a full Ellison family backstop, according to WBD.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s board has unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance&#8217;s $108 billion takeover bid, calling it &#8220;misleading&#8221; and &#8220;inadequate.&#8221; The board reiterated its commitment to a merger with Netflix, citing superior value and certainty. Paramount Skydance&#8217;s proposal faces significant risks and lacks a full Ellison family backstop, according to WBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":80580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}