{"id":52478,"date":"2025-08-07T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52478\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:01:06","slug":"skydance-closes-8-billion-paramount-deal-after-colbert-got-the-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52478\/","title":{"rendered":"Skydance Closes $8 Billion Paramount Deal After Colbert Got the Axe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media Merger
\n Skydance Closes $8 Billion Paramount Deal<\/p>\n

\n Published August 7, 2025 7:40 AM PDT
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The Skydance-Paramount merger is officially a done deal — and it\u2019s all going down as “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” rolls through its final season.<\/p>\n

Skydance Media, led by CEO David Ellison, closed its massive $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global … cementing one of the biggest shake-ups Hollywood\u2019s seen in years.<\/p>\n

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The completed merger, announced Thursday<\/a>, had been months in the making, getting the final thumbs-up from Paramount\u2019s board and surviving a lengthy FCC review — and now, it’s full steam ahead. The company began public trading on NASDAQ Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

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But the timing was controversial — just weeks earlier, CBS announced that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” would end in May 2026. That followed a $16 million payment from Paramount Global to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump over the CBS TV news program “60 Minutes,” which Trump alleged had deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris in her favor during last year’s presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n

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Colbert<\/a> called that a “bribe” on his show. Days later, Paramount announced his show would not be renewed, citing its lack of profitability. One of late night\u2019s most recognizable voices, Colbert’s hosted “The Late Show” since 2015.<\/p>\n

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His departure marks a major shift for CBS — and adds to the growing list of changes under the newly merged studio umbrella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Media Merger Skydance Closes $8 Billion Paramount Deal Published August 7, 2025 7:40 AM PDT | Updated August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-52478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}