Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO
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Netflix just upended Hollywood again, this time with a media mega merger, buying Warner Brothers and HBO in a deal valued more than $70 billion.
Now, this deal will require a lengthy regulatory review process. The Trump administration may raise red flags. Regulators in the EU may do the same. This deal is not going to be consummated for a long time, if ever. But Netflix is arguing that this deal is in the best interests of consumers as well as the creative community, although many in Hollywood have their doubts, and some have already come out to object to this media consolidation.
This blockbuster deal by Netflix is the result of Warner Brothers' discovery putting itself up for sale earlier this year. WBD is also the parent company of CNN. Over the summer, it announced a plan to break up into two publicly traded halves, with Warner Brothers and HBO going off to the Warner Brothers side of the house, and CNN and other cable channels going off to a company called Discovery Global. That break up is still going to happen. It's now set to take place in the summer of 2026. And once it does, Netflix will swoop in and take over Warner Brothers and HBO, assuming all those regulators sign off, of course.
This could be a protracted legal battle because there are also other bidders on the sidelines who may continue to try to pursue these assets. Paramount has been the most aggressive in trying to do so.
This deal would have been unimaginable 20 years ago, back when Netflix was a DVD by mail startup, but it has gradually, slowly but surely taken over the entertainment business, becoming the king of the streaming universe, and now it wants to get even bigger. Netflix says this is a deal that sets up the company for decades to come.
- upend ๋ค์ง๋ค, ์์ ํ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ค
The new policy upended the entire industry. ์๋ก์ด ์ ์ฑ
์ด ์ฐ์
์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋คํ๋ค์๋ค.
- mega merger ์ด๋ํ ํฉ๋ณ
- raise red flags ์ฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ค, ์ํ ์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๋ค
The financial report raised red flags among investors. ์ฌ๋ฌด ๋ณด๊ณ ์๊ฐ ํฌ์์๋ค ์ฌ์ด์์ ์ฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ผ์ผ์ผฐ๋ค.
- be consummated (๊ณ์ฝ, ๊ฑฐ๋๊ฐ) ์ต์ข
์ฑ์ฌ๋๋ค
The deal will be consummated after regulatory approval. ๊ท์ ์น์ธ ํ ๊ฑฐ๋๊ฐ ์ต์ข
์ฑ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
- put itself up for sale ๋งค๋ฌผ๋ก ๋์ค๋ค, ๋งค๊ฐ ์ ์ฐจ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ค
The struggling company put itself up for sale last month. ์ด๋ ค์์ ๊ฒช๋ ๊ทธ ํ์ฌ๋ ์ง๋๋ฌ ๋งค๊ฐ ์ ์ฐจ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ค.
- on the sidelines ๊ด๋งํ๋ฉฐ, ์ง์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ์ง ์๊ณ
Several competitors are waiting on the sidelines. ๋ช๋ช ๊ฒฝ์์๋ค์ด ๊ด๋งํ๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋
ธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ค.
- slowly but surely ์ฒ์ฒํ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ํ์คํ๊ฒ
She's slowly but surely improving her English skills. ๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ํ์คํ๊ฒ ์์ด ์ค๋ ฅ์ ํค์๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค.
- set up for decades to come ์์ผ๋ก ์์ญ ๋
๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ง๋ จํ๋ค
This investment will set us up for decades to come. ์ด ํฌ์๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์์ญ ๋
๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค๊ฐ ๋๋ค์ ํ ๋ฆฌ์ฐ๋๋ฅผ ๋คํ๋ค์๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ์ญ๋๊ธ ๋ฏธ๋์ด ๋ํฉ๋ณ์ ํตํด์๋ค. ๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค๊ฐ ์๋๋ธ๋ผ๋์ค์ HBO๋ฅผ 700์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ(์ฝ 100์กฐ ์) ์ด์์ ๊ฐ์น๋ก ์ธ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐํํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
์ด๋ฒ ๊ฑฐ๋๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์น ๊ท์ ๋น๊ตญ์ ์ฌ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ์ผ ํ๋ค. ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์์ ์ ๋์ ๊ฑธ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, EU ๊ท์ ๋น๊ตญ ์ญ์ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง๋ก ์ฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ ๊ธฐํ ์ ์๋ค. ์ด ๊ฑฐ๋๋ ์ฑ์ฌ๋๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์๋นํ ์๊ฐ์ด ์์๋ ์ ๋ง์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ต์ข
์น์ธ ์ฌ๋ถ๋ ๋ถํฌ๋ช
ํ๋ค.
๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค ์ธก์ ์ด๋ฒ ์ธ์๊ฐ ์๋น์์ ์ฐฝ์์ ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ์ด์ต์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์ฃผ์ฅํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ํ ๋ฆฌ์ฐ๋ ์
๊ณ์์๋ ์๊ตฌ์ฌ์ ํ๋ ์์ ์ด ๋ง์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ถ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฏธ๋์ด ํตํฉ์ ๋ฐ๋ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ช
ํ๊ณ ๋์ฐ๋ค.
๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค์ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ํ ์ธ์๋ ์ฌํด ์ด ์๋๋ธ๋ผ๋์ค ๋์ค์ปค๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋งค๊ฐ ์ ์ฐจ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ค. WBD๋ CNN์ ๋ชจ๊ธฐ์
์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์ฌ์ฌ๋ฆ WBD๋ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์์ฅํ์ฌ๋ก ๋ถํ ํ๋ค๋ ๊ณํ์ ๋ฐํํ๋ค. ์๋๋ธ๋ผ๋์ค์ HBO๋ '์๋๋ธ๋ผ๋์ค' ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก, CNN ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํ ์ผ์ด๋ธ ์ฑ๋์ '๋์ค์ปค๋ฒ๋ฆฌ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ'์ด๋ผ๋ ํ์ฌ๋ก ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ ์ด๋ค.
์ด ๋ถํ ์ ์์ ๋๋ก ์งํ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ 2026๋
์ฌ๋ฆ ์๋ฃ๊ฐ ๋ชฉํ๋ค. ๋ถํ ์ด ์๋ฃ๋๋ฉด ๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค๊ฐ ์๋๋ธ๋ผ๋์ค์ HBO๋ฅผ ์ธ์ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ท์ ๋น๊ตญ์ ์น์ธ์ด ์ ์ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด๋ค.
์ด๋ฒ ๊ฑฐ๋๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐํ๋ ๋ฒ์ ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง ์ ์๋ค. ์ธ์์ ์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฝ์์๋ค์ด ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ด ์์ฐ์ ๋
ธ๋ฆด ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ์ค ํ๋ผ๋ง์ดํธ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ํ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์๋ค.
์ด๋ฒ ์ธ์๋ 20๋
์ ๋ง ํด๋ ์์์กฐ์ฐจ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ผ์ด๋ค. ๋น์ ๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค๋ DVD ์ฐํธ ๋ฐฐ์ก ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ๋ง ์์ํ ์คํํธ์
์ ๋ถ๊ณผํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค๋ ์์ํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์คํ๊ฒ ์ํฐํ
์ธ๋จผํธ ์ฐ์
์ ์ฅ์
ํ๋ฉฐ ์คํธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ์
๊ณ์ ์ ์์ด ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด์ ๋ ํฐ ๋ฉ์น๋ฅผ ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ทํ๋ฆญ์ค๋ ์ด๋ฒ ์ธ์๊ฐ ์์ญ ๋
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