{"id":116031,"date":"2026-02-17T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116031\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:24:08","slug":"warner-bros-reopens-takeover-talks-with-paramount-after-receiving-waiver-from-netflix-ap-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116031\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros reopens takeover talks with Paramount after receiving waiver from Netflix | Ap-business"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Netflix is granting Warner Bros. Discovery a seven-day waiver allowing the studio to reopen takeover talks with Paramount Skydance.<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that the waiver will allow it to discuss unresolved \u201cdeficiencies\u201d in Paramount’s previous offers.<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. now has until Feb. 23 to negotiate a possible transaction with Paramount Skydance.<\/p>\n

Previously, Warner\u2019s leadership consistently has backed the offer from Netflix. In December, Netflix agreed to buy Warner\u2019s studio and streaming business for $72 billion \u2014 now in an all-cash transaction<\/a> that the companies have said will speed up the path to a shareholder vote by April. Including debt, the enterprise value of the deal is about $83 billion, or $27.75 per share.<\/p>\n

Unlike Netflix, Paramount wants to acquire Warner\u2019s entire company \u2014 including networks like CNN<\/a> and Discovery \u2014 and went straight to shareholders with all cash, $77.9 billion offer in December.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Netflix is granting Warner Bros. Discovery a seven-day waiver allowing the studio to reopen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,1681,38,55199,51941,55198,503],"class_list":{"0":"post-116031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-industry-regulation","15":"tag-media-and-entertainment-industry","16":"tag-netflix-warner-bros-paramount-skydance","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}