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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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
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 ...
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Max has a new name. Again
(WBD is also CNN’s parent company.) By changing the streaming platform’s name roughly two years ago, WBD intended to highlight its diversity of offerings, which include original IP from HBO ...
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WBD Split Likely To Have Little To No Fallout For AEW
WBD, AEW's broadcaster, recently announced that the company would be split into two, and a recent report has revealed if it ...
WBD split: What will Warner Bros. Discovery look like as two separate companies?
Three years after WarnerMedia joined Discovery Inc., the media conglomerate created from that merger says it needs to be ...
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 ...
Why Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Stock Is Volatile Today
Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday announced a plan to separate into two independent public companies. The move creates a ...
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 ...