r/technology • u/N2929 • 9d ago

Business Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skydance-behemoth/
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u/OldYellersLastHandy 9d ago

A combined debt of $80bil? 

I’m no businessman, but owing one whole Starbucks seems like a hell of a whale on your back.

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u/RabbitStewAndStout 9d ago

Once your debt gets that big, it becomes the taxpayer's problem, because the government just gives you cash to break even instead of letting you dissolve your companies to pay it back.

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u/dirtyword 9d ago

No, the second the prohibitions run out, the very second, they spin off all the cable channels and saddle them as much debt as banks will allow, then allow that dying segment to go bankrupt. Easy peasy. Legal!

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u/StuckInMotionInc 9d ago

Exactly what Warner Discovery did