Netflix's all-cash $72 billion offer for Warner Bros. Discovery represents a superior deal that provides shareholders with greater financial certainty and an accelerated timeline. The revised structure eliminates market-based variability while maintaining the transaction value at $27.75 per share, demonstrating Netflix's commitment to completing this pro-consumer, pro-innovation combination. This merger will unite two premier storytelling companies and deliver broader choice and greater value to audiences worldwide.
This merger threatens to create a dangerous media monopoly that would give Netflix control over more than a quarter of the U.S. media market and nearly half of cable television. Concentrating oversight of major newsrooms like CNN under one owner with potential political ties undermines media independence and diversity. The deal deserves heavy regulatory skepticism given the unprecedented market power it would grant to a single streaming giant.
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