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Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two companies
Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two separate publicly traded companies – one oriented around the HBO Max streaming ...
Who Is Gunnar Wiedenfels? WBD's Cost-Cutting Finance Exec Picked as CEO of New TV Networks Spin-Off Comprising CNN, TBS, TNT, Discovery+ and More
Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have a name for its planned stand-alone TV-centric biz, but it does have a proposed CEO: ...
Guy Griggs to Lead Ad Sales for CNN
Warner Bros. Discovery has tapped Guy Griggs to lead ad sales for CNN. Griggs will join the company as senior vp of ad sales ...
David Zaslav just threw in the towel on his WBD experiment — and Wall Street is thrilled
Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting up after just over three years, and Wall Street is cheering. The spinoff will create a ...
Warner Bros. Discovery doesn't want its cable channels like CNN anymore. Who does?
Would you like to own CNN, TNT, and the Discovery Channel? Warner Bros. Discovery owns them now — but wants to get rid of ...
CNN’s Anderson Cooper rakes in $18M annually — as network faces spinoff amid ratings freefall: report
Cooper’s eye-popping salary has become a flashpoint inside CNN as staff brace for layoffs and belt-tightening, according to ...
WBD split: What will Warner Bros. Discovery look like as two separate companies?
Warner Bros Discovery said it will separate it streaming and production assets from its cable TV networks. Here's what it ...
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Fear Grips CNN as Ruthless Cost-Cutter Takes the Helm as It Is Set To Be Spun Off From Its Parent Company
‘We will continue to be very focused on efficiency,’ says Gunnar Wiedenfels, the new CEO.
Channing Dungey To Remain With Studios & Streaming Post-WBD Split; Few Executives With Dual Responsibilities Make For Clean Break
Channing Dungey (and maybe Brett Paul) will stay with Studios & Streaming post-WBD split. Few execs with dual ...
Moguls Take Aim at Zaslav’s Vision of WBD as Company Splits: ‘It Was a Failure’
Said one top executive: "It’s a deal that never had a shot and shouldn’t have been done. But they’ve also done a terrible job ...
Amid Cable Spinoffs, Trump’s CNN and MSNBC Hostility Could Raise M&A Hurdles
Trump’s hostility toward the press threatens to complicate dealmaking for those who own news operations, as Paramount has ...