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# Fitch cuts Skydance’s debt rating as merger leverage hits 7.8x
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/fitch-cuts-skydances-debt-rating-as-merger-leverage-hits-7-8x/
- Published: 2026-10-08T22:57:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-09T00:07:05.000Z
- Description: Deadline’s Jill Goldsmith reports that Fitch downgraded Skydance’s credit rating, citing “significant execution and integration risks” and leverage of 7.8 times earnings after the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger closed, following a similar S&P Global cut in late September.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Streaming, Jill Goldsmith, Paramount buys Warner Bros. Discovery and becomes Skydance

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