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Who Is Gunnar Wiedenfels? WBD's Cost-Cutting Finance Exec Picked as CEO of New TV Networks Spin-Off Comprising CNN, TBS, TNT, Discovery+ and More
Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have a name for its planned stand-alone TV-centric biz, but it does have a proposed CEO: ...
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Fear Grips CNN as Ruthless Cost-Cutter Takes the Helm as It Is Set To Be Spun Off From Its Parent Company
‘We will continue to be very focused on efficiency,’ says Gunnar Wiedenfels, the new CEO.
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WBD Split Will Leave Sports Rights With Cable Networks
Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday announced it is splitting its cable networks portfolio from its movie studio and streaming ...
David Zaslav just threw in the towel on his WBD experiment — and Wall Street is thrilled
Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting up after just over three years, and Wall Street is cheering. The spinoff will create a ...
Guy Griggs to Lead Ad Sales for CNN
Warner Bros. Discovery has tapped Guy Griggs to lead ad sales for CNN. Griggs will join the company as senior vp of ad sales ...
Amid Cable Spinoffs, Trump’s CNN and MSNBC Hostility Could Raise M&A Hurdles
Trump’s hostility toward the press threatens to complicate dealmaking for those who own news operations, as Paramount has ...
Did David Zaslav's Grand Vision Fail? As WBD and Other Media Giants Move Pieces Around, They Can't Outrun the Cable Math
David Zaslav insisted that Discovery Communications together with what was then called WarnerMedia was more than the sum of ...
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Which WBD assets are going where in company split?
Confused about where you’ll find new episodes of ‘Hacks’ or NHL games when WBD splits into two companies? We’ll try to break ...
CNN Hires NYT's Guy Griggs to Lead Ad Sales Team
Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday hired Guy Griggs, one of the chief members of The New York Times' sales team, to be CNN's ...