David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next

Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Vox Media Podcast Network

Sep 30, 202644:22Technology

David Ellison has won Warner Bros. Discovery. Now he has to figure out what, exactly, to do with it. LightShed analyst Rich Greenfield joins me to talk through the next version of the Paramount-Warner empire: Why Ellison...

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