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Every season is spooky season when it comes to media M&A, and each piece of Warner Bros. Discovery news is here to give you a jump scare.
The three years since WarnerMedia and Discovery’s $43 billion merger to create Warner Bros. Discovery have been anything but boring. Among some of the highlights, CEO David Zaslav shuttered completed projects for tax purposes, sent hit TV shows into obscurity, and hosted an earnings call that turned into a social media circus amid rumors that the company was shuttering HBO Max—all while still holding around $35 billion in debt.