Just as WarnerMedia has some hope for the future, the company is alarmingly stuck in the past. With the Discovery merger likely to take a year or more to close, the company is to some degree hamstr…
This is hardly news to Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who will run the combined companies if the merger gets done. Says a source close to the leader-in-waiting: “His singular focus is getting [the deal] approved quickly. He’s spending his time on how to get it done in less than a year. He feels the company in flux is not good.” Zaslav’s argument to regulators, says this source, will be that the feds already have deep familiarity with Discovery and WarnerMedia.
One WarnerMedia insider is among many who could not be more eager to bid farewell to the AT&T management team. “For all of us, it’s like, hurry up and leave,” this person says. Though Zaslav can’t make personnel decisions, the consensus among industry observers is that once the deal closes, WarnerMedia CEO
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