u/Professional_Peak59

I’ve been thinking about this: Since Comcast is spinning off NBCUniversal next year and they plan to place their $89B of debt into the spun-off company, can NBCU even manage to pay off that heavy debt quickly? It’s a heavy amount of debt, I feel as if paying off that amount would lead to them scrapping/cancelling future films and TV shows that are in development or in production, along with closing attractions and/or hotels at the parks, or even close a park altogether, not to mention that the debt, I feel, could put a halt to Universal Studios UK. I didn’t even forget about asset sales!

Also, $89B debt or not, I still doubt that NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery would merge if the latter’s Paramount merger ends up in the potty, because a combined Universal and WB would have a 40% studio market share, which is too large and indeed a monopoly.

It feels that, with the EU approving the Paramount-WBD merger and Paramount seeking a 3-day evidentiary hearing, the current lawsuit by the State AGs, WGA, and the Paramount shareholders against the merger is doomed to fail, because judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin could end up finding evidence as to why the merger is a good thing or why the AGs are foolish and have Paramount win the case. It also feels as if that the UK will have no choice but to approve the merger because of pressure or let it close without approval. It even feels as if there will be NO preliminary injunction.