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Warner Bros Discovery Sets Stage For Potential Cable Deal By

Shares dive 13% after restructuring announcement

Follows path taken by Comcast’s brand-new spin-off company

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Challenges seen in offering debt-laden linear TV networks

(New throughout, includes information, background, comments from market insiders and analysts, updates share rates)

By Dawn Chmielewski, Deborah Mary Sophia and Aditya Soni

Dec 12 (Reuters) – Warner Bros Discovery on Thursday chose to separate its declining cable organizations such as CNN from streaming and studio operations such as Max, preparing for a prospective sale or spinoff of its TV business as more cable subscribers cut the cord.

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Shares of Warner jumped after the business said the brand-new structure would be more deal friendly and it anticipated to complete the split by the middle of 2025. Warner shares closed at $12.49, up more than 15%.

Media business are considering alternatives for fading cable businesses, a long time money cow where incomes are deteriorating as millions of consumers embrace streaming video.

Comcast last month revealed strategies to split most of its NBCUniversal cable networks into a brand-new public company. The brand-new company would be well capitalized and positioned to obtain other cable television networks if the industry combines, one source told Reuters.

Bank of America research analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich wrote that Warner Bros Discovery’s cable television possessions are a “really logical partner” for Comcast’s brand-new spin-off business.

“We highly think there is potential for relatively large synergies if WBD’s direct networks were integrated with Comcast SpinCo,” wrote Ehrlich, utilizing the industry term for conventional television.

“Further, our company believe WBD’s standalone streaming and studio assets would be an appealing takeover target.”

Under the new structure for Warner Bros Discovery, the cable television company consisting of TNT, Animal Planet and CNN will be housed in an unit called Global Linear Networks.

Streaming platforms Max and Discovery+ will be under a separate department together with movie studios, including Warner Bros Pictures and New Line Cinema.

The restructuring shows an inflection point for the media market, as financial investments in streaming services such as Warner Bros Discovery’s Max are finally paying off.

“Streaming won as a habits,” stated Jonathan Miller, chief executive of digital media investment firm Integrated Media. “Now, it’s winning as an organization.”

Brightcove CEO Marc DeBevoise said Warner Bros Discovery’s brand-new business structure will differentiate growing studio and streaming properties from however shrinking cable television TV company, giving a clearer financial investment picture and likely setting the phase for a sale or spin-off of the cable television system.

The media veteran and adviser forecasted Paramount and others might take a comparable course.

CEO David Zaslav, a veteran deal-maker who led Discovery through its acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive before acquiring the even larger target, AT&T’s WarnerMedia, is positioning the company for its next chess move, composed MoffettNathanson expert Robert Fishman.

“The question is not whether more pieces will be moved or knocked off the board, or if additional consolidation will happen– it is a matter of who is the buyer and who is the seller,” wrote Fishman.

Zaslav signaled that circumstance throughout Warner Bros Discovery’s financier call last month. He said he prepared for President-elect Donald Trump’s administration would be friendlier to deal-making, opening the door to media market combination.

Zaslav had actually participated in merger talks with Paramount late last year, though a deal never emerged, according to a regulative filing last month.

Others injected a note of caution, keeping in mind Warner Bros Discovery brings $40.4 billion in financial obligation.

“The structure change would make it simpler for WBD to sell off its direct TV networks,” eMarketer analyst Ross Benes stated, describing the cable television TV business. “However, finding a buyer will be tough. The networks owe money and have no indications of growth.”

In August, Warner Bros Discovery jotted down the value of its TV assets by over $9 billion due to unpredictability around costs from cable television and satellite suppliers and sports betting rights renewals.

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Today, the media company revealed a multi-year deal increasing the general charges Comcast will pay to disperse Warner Bros Discovery’s networks.

Warner Bros Discovery is wagering the Comcast arrangement, together with an offer reached this year with cable and broadband supplier Charter, will be a design template for future settlements with distributors. That might help support rates for the domestic pay TV market. (Reporting by Deborah Sophia and Aditya Soni in Bengaluru, Dawn Chmielewski in Los Angeles; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar, Arun Koyyur, Keith Weir and David Gregorio)

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