This is allper the Financial Timestonight.

Deadline has reached out to Warner Bros Discovery for comment.

Well update when they weigh in.

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Discovery Starts New Round Of Layoffs

Warner Bros. No sound corporation wants to get into business with that.

However, bits and pieces picked up by the right media company could work.

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John Malone and the Newhouse family are WBDs biggest investors.

Theres also a path whereby WBD could opt to just stay the course as is.

WBD at one point sat down with then-Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish last December asheadlines hitabout merger talks.

That marriage was never going to happen.

The Zaslav era of WBD has seen a tremendous amount of cuts andlayoffsin an effort to pay down debt.