{"id":241100,"date":"2025-10-21T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241100\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:31:09","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-puts-itself-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241100\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN, and other cable networks, said on Tuesday that it is putting itself up for sale.<\/p>\n

In a press release, the company announced a “review of potential alternatives,” Wall Street speak for a sale. WBD said it had recently received “unsolicited interest” from “multiple parties for both the entire company and Warner Bros.”<\/p>\n

The company said that while it shops itself around, it will continue to work on the previously announced split of its cable networks<\/a> from its streaming and studio business.<\/p>\n

Any deal for part of all of the company would be a sizable one. As of Monday’s close of trading, Warner Bros. Discovery had a market value of more than $45 billion. It also carries billions of dollars of debt on its balance sheet.<\/p>\n

In September, Paramount Global was preparing a bid<\/a> for all of WBD, however it appeared to stall in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Steve Kopack<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Steve Kopack is a senior reporter at NBC News covering business and the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN, and other cable networks, said on Tuesday that it is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-241100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}