Paramount Completes $110 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Merger

On air: Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock on The Opening Bell
Published 9:37 AM ET, Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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First reported by The Verge: “Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery complete $110 billion media megamerger”.
Covered on BBN on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 9:37 AM ET on The Opening Bell, by Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock.
Topics: Warner Bros, Paramount.
BBN covered this story before: Paramount and Warner Bros. Become One Hollywood Giant (October 6).

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The VergeParamount and Warner Bros. Discovery complete $110 billion media megamerger

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThis is a BBN special report. The Verge reports Paramount has completed its one hundred ten billion dollar acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe combined company is known as Skydance. It puts both film studios, plus HBO, CBS News and CNN, under one roof.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Verge says the road to the deal was rocky. Its editors see big implications for ad spend, streaming competition and subscriber economics.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn the tape, W-B-D is up point one percent and P-S-K-Y is up three point two. Both are among the most active names.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhat to watch next: how the combined streaming business is run, and how advertisers react.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe S and P is at seven thousand eight hundred eleven.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank, this is the biggest group project in media history, and somehow nobody got voted off. I'm thrilled.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVera, CNN and CBS News now share a building. The break room fridge will be a war zone.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSomeone's labeled yogurt is getting stolen by HBO, and honestly, it's prestige television.