BND - Paramount completes $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

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Paramount completes $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Oct 2, 5 PM ET to Oct 6, 6 PM ET

33outlets carried it
🫏15 · 9 · 9🐘left · center · right
4 dayson the front pages
28front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
5radio newscasts

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Oct 2, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
Oct 6, 10 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 6, 11 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 6, 3 PM ETpeak: on 28 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 4, 9 AM to Oct 6, 6 PM ET (peak 28), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (CNBC)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 81 billion 🐘 media behemoth 🐘 paramount officially closes

✏️ 18 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Paramount and Warner Bros to become one Hollywood giant: Skydance. Here's how we got here” → “Paramount and Warner Bros are now one Hollywood giant: Skydance. Here's how we got here”
Axios (2 wordings): “Skydance announces leadership for combined company” → “Paramount closes historic $110B deal for Warner Bros. Discovery to create Skydance”
BBC (2 wordings): “Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger” → “What the Paramount and Warner Bros deal means for you”
Bloomberg (4 wordings): “Paramount to Change Name to Skydance After Merger Is Complete” → “Paramount Closes Warner Merger in Historic Hollywood Deal The new company will be called Skydance.”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “Nolte: The Newly-Merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Will Be Called ‘Skydance’” → “Paramount Warner Bros. Deal Is Done. Here’s How Hollywood Giant Skydance Was Born”
CNBC (4 wordings): “David Ellison says combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery to be named Skydance” → “David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz announce Skydance leadership team”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger takes effect, creating Skydance” → “Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger takes effect, creating Skydance”
Google News (2 wordings): “Skydance Is a Decent Name, It’s Just Weaker Than Paramount or Warner Bros. - The Hollywood Reporter” → “Skydance Blasts Off: Can David Ellison Make Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Fly? - Variety”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Paramount-Warner Bros. Mega-Merger To Close Today” → “HOLLYWOOD HELL ARRIVES: Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Complete”
Los Angeles Times (3 wordings): “David Ellison names Skydance team that includes prominent Warner executives” → “Paramount-Warner Bros. transaction closes, creating a new Hollywood colossus”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Paramount and Warner Bros. to be renamed Skydance” → “Paramount completes $110B Warner Bros. merger to form Skydance”
New York Post (4 wordings): “Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery post-merger name revealed” → “David Ellison’s $81 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed Tuesday, creating a new media behemoth known as Skydance – and execs are already hinting at layoffs.”
New York Times (3 wordings): “5 Challenges David Ellison Faces as Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Merge” → “Paramount Closes Merger With Warner Bros. Discovery to Form Skydance”
Reuters (4 wordings): “David Ellison says combined Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery will be named Skydance” → “Paramount wraps up mega Warner Bros merger to create Hollywood powerhouse Skydance - Reuters”
Rolling Stone (4 wordings): “Skydance Blasts Off: Can David Ellison Make Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Fly? 3 hours ago” → “Skydance CEOs Acknowledge Layoffs Will Be Coming After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: Read the Full Memo 3 hours ago”
The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “David Ellison Debuts New Name for Merged Paramount, Warner Bros. Studios” → “Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Closes, Creating New Media Behemoth”
The Hill (3 wordings): “Paramount, Warner Bros. reveal new name” → “Paramount closes deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Paramount closes deal for Warner Bros., creating media giant Skydance” → “Paramount closes deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, creating Hollywood giant Skydance”