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DOJ official downplays state AGs’ Paramount-WBD settlement terms

DOJ official downplays state AGs’ Paramount-WBD settlement terms

Deadline’s Ted Johnson reports that associate attorney general Stanley Woodward minimized the concessions state AGs won in their settlement blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger, saying the only antitrust provisions require Paramount honor commitments it had already made.

Measurement

Trump convention fails to lift Fox News ratings

Deadline’s Ted Johnson reports that Fox News averaged 2.3 million primetime viewers on the GOP convention’s first night, below its 2.54 million September 2025 average. CNN also dipped, while MS NOW rose to 1.1 million, up from 810,000 a year earlier.

Sep 14
Streaming

AT&T-Time Warner precedent looms over Paramount-WBD antitrust fight

Deadline’s Ted Johnson reports that as state attorneys general sue to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, lawyers and analysts point to the 2018 AT&T-Time Warner trial, where a judge rejected the government’s antitrust case and the merger closed.

Sep 3