Paramount Skydance has amended its $30 (€25.17) per share, all-cash tender offer to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) with enhancements that it says “surpass the standard needed for the WBD Board to engage on Paramount’s superior proposal”. Paramount added that its enhanced offer “provides definitively superior value and certainty”. To underscore confidence in the speed […]
The EW Scripps Company has confirmed an agreement to sell its Court TV network to Law&Crime – the multiplatform true crime and legal content studio created and led by ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams and now owned by media creator holding company Jellysmack. Scripps relaunched Court TV in May 2019 after acquiring the […]
SpaceX and xAI have formally announced that they are merging. A statement from SpaceX Elon Musk said: “SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform. This marks not just […]
European telco giants Telefónica and Liberty Global, the joint owners of Virgin Media O2, have partnered with private equity firm InfraVia Capital to acquire alternative full fibre broadband network Netomnia, according to FT. The deal, valued at £2 billion (€2.3bn), would combine Netomnia’s fibre build with nexfibre’s footprint and parts of Virgin Media O2, creating […]
AT&T has closed its previously announced transaction to acquire substantially all of Lumen’s Mass Markets fibre business for $5.75 billion (€4.87bn) in an all-cash transaction, subject to customary adjustments. “America’s largest network is the best positioned in our industry to serve even more consumers – both in the home and on the go,” said John […]
In July 2025, Telia Company announced a recommended public offer of of SEK 3.1 billion (€293.5 million) to the shareholders of Bredband2 i Skandinavien AB to tender all shares in Bredband2 to Telia. Telia has now announced that all conditions for completion of the offer have been fulfilled and accordingly declares the offer “unconditional”. Settlement […]
The planned sale of Eutelsat’s ground infrastructure for €550 million has collapsed. Reuters is reporting that the French government stepped in to scupper the sale. French Finance Minister Roland Lescure earlier this week blocked Eutelsat’s sale of its ground antennas, he said on January 30th, citing national security concerns tied to the satellite operator, the […]
Mediawan, the independent European studio led by Pierre-Antoine Capton, co-founded by Capton, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse, has announced the signing of a deal to acquire The North Road Company, the independent US-based studio founded by Peter Chernin. Mediawan said that, together, the two companies will have a stronger ability to accelerate the development of […]
Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic have come out against the Netflix takeover of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). What did Netflix ever do to them? Well, in the case of the US, it’s more a question of what Netflix hasn’t done for them. Because it’s never been a network, it’s never had the wherewithal […]
Paramount Skydance has extended the deadline on its hostile tender offer for Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) to February 20th, buying more time to persuade investors that its bid for the studio is superior to a deal with Netflix. Paramount’s previous tender offer expired on January 21st. Paramount confirmed that it has filed preliminary proxy materials […]