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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: ...
Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two companies
Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two separate publicly traded companies – one oriented around the HBO Max streaming ...
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 ...
CNN Hires NYT’s Guy Griggs to Lead Ad Sales Team
He joins the cable channel after helping The New York Times increase digital ad revenue 12% during the first quarter of 2025.
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Max has a new name. Again
(WBD is also CNN’s parent company.) By changing the streaming platform’s name roughly two years ago, WBD intended to highlight its diversity of offerings, which include original IP from HBO ...
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 ...
Warner Bros. Discovery doesn't want its cable channels like CNN anymore. Who does?
Would you like to own CNN, TNT, and the Discovery Channel? Warner Bros. Discovery owns them now — but wants to get rid of ...
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 ...
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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.
WBD split: What will Warner Bros. Discovery look like as two separate companies?
Warner Bros Discovery said it will separate it streaming and production assets from its cable TV networks. Here's what it ...
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ESPN finally reveals the name of its new flagship streaming service
(WBD is CNN’s parent company.) The trio’s decision not to launch the JV came after they ended a months-long lawsuit from Fubo four days earlier. Despite that, reports had emerged that ...