Paramount executives sipped champagne out of paper cups on the legendary studio lot in Hollywood to celebrate. Netflix execs consoled themselves with the $2.8bn break free.
Inside Project Warrior, or how Paramount beat Netflix in $110bn battle for Warner.
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Scoop: The BBC set to cut hundreds of millions of pounds - a tenth of its costs over the next three years - in a move likely to lead to fresh job cuts. Staff told in a conference call held by director-general Tim Davie this afternoon
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under rated and often majority view. "thats just fine I guess, haven't given it much thought"
09.02.2026 08:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One person close to the Will Lewis exit from the Washington Post told the FT: “Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing". Lewis was spotted at a Super Bowl party on the same day as his newspaper was firing 300 staff.
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07.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Will Lewis has just told staff at the Washington Post he is stepping down
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09.12.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SCOOP w/ @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social: Channel 4 is set to appoint Sky advertising supremo Priya Dogra as its next chief executive. Announcement could come as early as tomorrow for the public service broadcaster.
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Kushner, Gulf money and desperate texts: inside Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros on.ft.com/4aEEH1P
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Netflix boss Ted Sarandos keeps a replica of Rosebud, the childhood sled at the heart of the Warner Bros’ film Citizen Kane, hanging in his home. Now he gets to own the whole studio.
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Daily Mail's parent company agrees a deal to buy Telegraph for £500m! Media consolidation, let's go, ya gonna blink and stop this competition regulators? Over to you, Nandy? Strong potential everyone just waves the sale through to STOP HAVING TO READ OR THINK ABOUT IT. www.ft.com/content/cd8e...
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Daily Mail owner DMGT has struck a £500mn deal to buy rival newspaper The Telegraph in a tie-up that would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain, confirming our scoop last week w/ @JFK_America
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Scoop: Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC board in the latest blow to the corporation since the resignation of its director-general two weeks ago.
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Scoop: Paramount is in advanced talks to acquire Champions League TV rights in the UK and other major European markets in major bet on sports rights outside the US and blow to incumbent broadcasters. Story coming soon on FT.com
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Samuel Agini + @danielthomasldn.bsky.social: Wimbledon Debenture #Tickets Set To Secure Exemption From UK Resale Crackdown | @financialtimes.com
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Rare chance to get Mogwai on the front page of the FT this morning in this scoop with @pickardje.bsky.social
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Can I recommend the joy of listening to St Etienne talking in this podcast? I l listened over the weekend and what a lovely conversation between two old friends.
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Scoop with @PickardJE: the UK will outlaw rip off ticket touts by fixing prices at face value ..
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Scoop: Lord Rothermere’s DMGT, the owner of the Daily Mail, has already expressed interest in buying the Telegraph (having been a minority partner).
Lord Rothermere has long ambitions to bring together the two rightwing British newspapers.
RedBird has confirmed to the FT that it will "withdraw its bid", saying: "We remain fully confident that the Telegraph and its world-class team have a bright future ahead of them".
Which is fairly magnanimous of them considering the coverage of RedBird by the Telegraph.
The telegraph has been for sale for three years on.ft.com/4oGV6Hu
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14.11.2025 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The £500mn sale of the Telegraph to US private equity firm RedBird has collapsed, throwing the future of the newspaper into question as it enters its third year without an owner
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Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for at least $1bn over the edit of a speech at the heart of a crisis at the broadcaster, acc to a letter from his lawyers seen by the FT
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EXC: ‘Cable cowboy’ John Malone is to step down from his media and telecoms empire today, in an era-ending step for the American pioneer.
Malone will step down as chair of both Liberty Global and Liberty Media.
With @danielthomasldn.bsky.social
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Traffic to the largest UK site dropped 77% after the Online Safety Act was enforced this summer
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Are weight loss drugs killing off the business lunch? @danielthomasldn.bsky.social and @emmavj.bsky.social rpt. www.ft.com/content/d1c5...
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