by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve given it some thought, and here’s a hypothetical media goliath that would give Disney a run for its money. See, here’s what you do — combine Paramount with Warner Bros Discovery and NetFlix.
The reason why this works is if you combine Paramount with Warner Bros Discovery rather than NBCUniversal, you don’t have the touchy issue of what the fuck to do with CNN. It would be easy to fuse CBS News with CNN, something that has long been talked about.
Meanwhile, if you fuse Netflix with this combination, it’s a win-win: Netflix gets a massive back catalog and two has-beens in the streaming wars get an instant link into Netflix massive subscriber base.
Remember, Disney is fucking huge. Enormous. And so the combination of these three companies would allow this new and improved Netflix the ability to challenge Disney head-on.
Do I think this will happen — probably not. There are too many variables and given what idiots corporate suits are in general, it’s far more likely that it would be Warner Bros Discovery merging with NBCUniversal. Then we all spend a year watching as the politics of Who Will Own CNN gets fought over in a very, very public manner.
