{"id":77066,"date":"2026-08-06T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/paramount-concessions-lead-uk-to-approve-takeover-of-warner-bros\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:58:45","slug":"paramount-concessions-lead-uk-to-approve-takeover-of-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/paramount-concessions-lead-uk-to-approve-takeover-of-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount concessions lead UK to approve takeover of Warner Bros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says she will not intervene in \u00a385bn deal after securing guarantees on Channel 5<\/p>\n<p>The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she will not intervene in Paramount\u2019s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, removing one of the remaining obstacles to the blockbuster deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, Paramount has made significant concessions to secure the UK government\u2019s backing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/feb\/26\/netflix-paramount-warner-bros\">$110bn (\u00a385bn) <\/a>takeover, which will create a global media powerhouse and effectively bolster the influence of Paramount\u2019s CEO, David Ellison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/06\/paramount-warner-bros-uk-approve-takeover-lisa-nandy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says she will not intervene in \u00a385bn deal after securing guarantees on Channel 5 The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she will not intervene in Paramount\u2019s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, removing one of the remaining obstacles to the blockbuster deal. However, Paramount has made significant concessions to &#8230; <a title=\"Paramount concessions lead UK to approve takeover of Warner Bros\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/paramount-concessions-lead-uk-to-approve-takeover-of-warner-bros\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Paramount concessions lead UK to approve takeover of Warner Bros\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}