Rich Greenfield: PSKY will likely be forced to sell a studio lot, a significant amount of major IP, and a substantial amount of the catalog titles to get the merger approved
Media analyst Peter Supino - rather than a long legal battle PSKY could decide to keep HBO and offload Warner to Netflix. PSKY streaming service vaults forward with lower debt and Netflix gets the IP it covets.
Rich Greenfield: “If Paramount used even a fraction of the cash it’s spending on WBD to ramp up production and license more third party content, it could achieve much of the same benefit without a major acquisition, as Netflix has done”