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Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control
if Paramount Buys Warner Bros.
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Paramount Skydance's sprawling media empire will get a major
boost if the deal gets approved.

Less than a year ago, Skydance Media closed its $8 billion
merger with Paramount, making the Trump-friendly Ellison
family - billionaire Oracle founder Larry and his son David,
CEO of Paramount Skydance - among the most powerful media
moguls in the country. A looming Paramount Skydance merger
with Warner Bros. Discovery would expand their empire even
further.

Now that Netflix has backed out of its bid to acquire WBD,
the Ellisons stand to gain an entirely new trove of
significant intellectual property, from DC Comics to Harry
Potter. As part of the deal, the Ellison Trust is committing
to $45.7 billion in equity and a $7 billion termination fee
if federal regulators don't approve of it, according to
Reuters.

Paramount's merger with Skydance has already brought about
mass layoffs, including at CBS News, where Free Press
founder Bari Weiss is leading a cultural overhaul as
editor-in-chief. In January, Oracle became a partial owner
of TikTok, giving the Ellisons even more cultural currency.

Here's everything the family would control if the WBD deal
goes through.

- CBS and CBS News
Besides its news division, which includes 60 Minutes, CBS
is also home to hits like Tracker and Matlock, along with
reality stalwarts Survivor and Big Brother.

- HBO and HBO Max
Among the most Emmy-winningest networks to exist, HBO's
library includes classics like Game of Thrones, The Wire,
and Veep, as well as newer hits like The Pitt, The Gilded
Age, and Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
(Outside of Canada, HBO Max is also a key distributor of
hockey smut drama Heated Rivalry.)

- CNN
While CNN's ratings dipped last year, it remains a news
juggernaut and a top 5 cable network, featuring household
names like John King, Kaitlan Collins, and Anderson Cooper
(who recently announced he will be leaving 60 Minutes at
the end of the current season).

- DC Comics
The merger would put Paramount Skydance in control of
storied comic book franchises like Superman, Batman, and
Wonder Woman.

- Harry Potter
The wizarding world of Harry Potter, including all eight
fantasy films and the upcoming HBO television series slated
to premiere in 2027 would also be under the Ellisons'
purview.

- TikTok
As of a deal finalized in January, Oracle now holds a 15%
stake in TikTok's US operations.

- Star Trek
All 13 Star Trek movies and television shows are owned by
Paramount Skydance. At a press event last year, Dana
Goldberg, cochair of Paramount Pictures and chair of
Paramount Television, said the franchise would be a
"priority across the company."

- Warner Bros. Studios
Home to blockbusters like Barbie, The Dark Knight, and more
recently, One Battle After Another, and Sinners.

- Comedy Central
South Park announced a five-year, $1.5 billion deal with
Paramount last July, just prior to the merger with Skydance.
The show has since skewered Donald Trump and those in his
administration regularly.

- Avatar Studios [The Last Avatar, not James Cameron's sci-fi]
In December, Paramount+ announced it would be the exclusive
streamer of Avatar Studios content, including animated film
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender and series Avatar:
Seven Havens.

- A Bunch of Cable Channels and Networks
The Food Network, HGTV, Discovery, TLC, OWN, Adult Swim,
Showtime, TNT, and TBS are all part of WBD.

- Other Key Franchises
Other notable titles that are or would be controlled by the
Ellisons, pending the WBD takeover include: The Lord of the
Rings franchise, the Mission Impossible franchise, and the
distribution rights to Dune: Part Three.



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In article <10ntdaq$2vqd3$1@dont-email.me>, YourName@YourISP.com wrote:

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control if Paramount Buys Warner Bros.

Better them than Netflix!
(But not much)
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have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.

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On Feb 27, 2026 at 4:36:42 PM PST, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control
if Paramount Buys Warner Bros.
-----------------------------------------------
Paramount Skydance's sprawling media empire will get a major
boost if the deal gets approved.

Conservative Oracle founder Larry Ellison dropped $110 billion to have Paramount-Skydance devour Warner Bros. Discovery whole.

CNN? HBO? CBS? All ours now. MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Showtime, TNT, TBS, Adult Swim, Paramount+, Warner Bros. Studios, the DC and Harry Potter universes... the entire propaganda hydra just got choked out and rebranded under conservative control.

Netflix tried to play savior but they folded.

For decades the leftist cultists treated the media like their personal prefrontal cortex, pumping out leftist propaganda 24/7, manufacturing consent for open borders, aborting babies, groomer policies in schools, hug-a-thug crime policies, mutilating children in the name of transformer ideology, and every flavor of degeneracy that keeps their dopamine-starved base seething and voting blue.

That was their only real power. Not ideas. Not truth. Just narrative control. The 4AM talking points. The gaslighting machine. The slow-drip poison that convinced half the country black was white and men could get pregnant.

The exorcism has begun.

One of the comments I saw on the exTwitters to a BSNOW talking head bemoaning the loss of their cultural hegemony was as hilarious as it was crude:

"Karma isn't just a whore. SherCOs a blood-soaked hellbitch with a 12-inch strap-on and zero lube, and she's balls-deep in the collective asshole of
every blue-check leftist propagandist who thought they'd own the culture forever."



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On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:14:31 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

On Feb 27, 2026 at 4:36:42 PM PST, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control
if Paramount Buys Warner Bros.
-----------------------------------------------
Paramount Skydance's sprawling media empire will get a major
boost if the deal gets approved.

Conservative Oracle founder Larry Ellison dropped $110 billion to have >Paramount-Skydance devour Warner Bros. Discovery whole.

CNN? HBO? CBS? All ours now. MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Showtime, TNT, >TBS, Adult Swim, Paramount+, Warner Bros. Studios, the DC and Harry Potter >universes... the entire propaganda hydra just got choked out and rebranded >under conservative control.

Netflix tried to play savior but they folded.

For decades the leftist cultists treated the media like their personal >prefrontal cortex, pumping out leftist propaganda 24/7, manufacturing consent >for open borders, aborting babies, groomer policies in schools, hug-a-thug >crime policies, mutilating children in the name of transformer ideology, and >every flavor of degeneracy that keeps their dopamine-starved base seething and >voting blue.

Nice projection. Too bad its been used so often it is yawn-inspiring.

That was their only real power. Not ideas. Not truth. Just narrative control. >The 4AM talking points. The gaslighting machine. The slow-drip poison that >convinced half the country black was white and men could get pregnant.

Nice projection. Too bad its been used so often it is yawn-inspiring.

The exorcism has begun.

One of the comments I saw on the exTwitters to a BSNOW talking head bemoaning >the loss of their cultural hegemony was as hilarious as it was crude:

"Karma isn't just a whore. SheAs a blood-soaked hellbitch with a 12-inch >strap-on and zero lube, and she's balls-deep in the collective asshole of >every blue-check leftist propagandist who thought they'd own the culture >forever."

That's OK, it'll be Fox's turn soon.
What goes around, comes around.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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On 2/28/26 1:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 27, 2026 at 4:36:42 PM PST, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control
if Paramount Buys Warner Bros.
-----------------------------------------------
Paramount Skydance's sprawling media empire will get a major
boost if the deal gets approved.

Conservative Oracle founder Larry Ellison

Who care's if he's a Conservative? All Jews are on the
same side.

dropped $110 billion to have
Paramount-Skydance devour Warner Bros. Discovery whole.

CNN? HBO? CBS? All ours

"Ours"? Speak for yourself.

now. MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Showtime, TNT,
TBS, Adult Swim, Paramount+, Warner Bros. Studios, the DC and Harry Potter universes... the entire propaganda hydra just got choked out and rebranded under conservative control.

The "buying out the competition" scheme only "works" if it's
a major power buying out low power outlets, to suppress
competition, but we need *more* competition, not less.
Monopoly Media is Rent-Seeking, and no Ellisons, Brins,
Finks, Musks, etc., are heroes here.

Netflix tried to play savior but they folded.

For decades the leftist cultists treated the media like their personal prefrontal cortex, pumping out leftist propaganda 24/7, manufacturing consent for open borders, aborting babies, groomer policies in schools, hug-a-thug crime policies, mutilating children in the name of transformer ideology, and every flavor of degeneracy that keeps their dopamine-starved base seething and
voting blue.

That was their only real power. Not ideas. Not truth. Just narrative control. The 4AM talking points. The gaslighting machine. The slow-drip poison that convinced half the country black was white and men could get pregnant.

They, in other words, proclaim that their unanimous opinion
is proof that what they say is always true; this is caused
by a lack of oppositional media.

The exorcism has begun.

One of the comments I saw on the exTwitters to a BSNOW talking head bemoaning the loss of their cultural hegemony was as hilarious as it was crude:

"Karma isn't just a whore. SherCOs a blood-soaked hellbitch with a 12-inch strap-on and zero lube, and she's balls-deep in the collective asshole of every blue-check leftist propagandist who thought they'd own the culture forever."

That sounds like Jews and their rape threats. Be real,
Jewish politics consists of Jews attacking non-Jews.











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