The deal nonetheless has to clear regulatory hurdles, nevertheless it has sparked concern about job cuts and shifts in focus throughout the broader media business.
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After months of bidding, Paramount Skydance has triumphed in its try to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal that features NCS and the tv networks created by Ted Turner.
For greater than 3,000 staff on the firm’s Techwood campus, the place NCS, TBS, TNT and different networks reside, the stakes could not be greater. The former Turner networks have been handed alongside in a endless carousel of offers which have taken them from Turner to Time Warner to AT&T and now Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison (left) arrives with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., earlier than President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union deal with. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
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The NCS Techwood campus was embellished for the 2024 presidential debate. (Jason Getz/AJC)
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face off of their first presidential debate at NCS in 2024 in Atlanta. (Jason Getz/AJC)
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Savannah Sicurella is an leisure enterprise reporter with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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