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David Zaslav

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Dylan Byers • September 13, 2024

This Too Shall Zaz

David Zaslav may be trumpeting a face-saving deal with Charter, but the forthcoming face-off with Comcast isn’t going to be any easier.
Dylan Byers • September 4, 2024
Brian’s Song
Brian Stelter
The backstory on Brian Stelter’s return, and the real drama inside CNN: the potential arrival of former wunderkind Josh Tyrangiel.
Matthew Belloni • August 30, 2024
How the Zaz Fire Sale Could Play Out
A composite of David Zaslav and Gunnar Wiedenfels
Coming off a stock price nadir, with its legacy TV business cratering, Warner Bros. Discovery has reached the point where it may need to sell some stuff. Herewith, a rating of marketable assets and the highly speculative likelihood that David Zaslav will part with them.
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John Ourand • August 19, 2024
He’s Just Not That Into Venu
Unscrambling the legal quagmire over the service formerly known as Spulu.
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William D. Cohan • August 14, 2024
Jekyll & Zaz
Interrogating the bull case—or at least the view that things aren’t as totally awful as they seem—for David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Eriq Gardner • August 13, 2024
Zaslav’s Sports Streamer Is on Trial for Its Life
After days of withering scrutiny in court, a judge is seriously considering an injunction against Venu, the joint venture from WBD, Fox, and Disney, over alleged antitrust violations.
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Matthew Belloni • August 9, 2024
Hollywood Finally Faces the Cable-pocalypse
The entire media sector is entering a new, more sinister stage of the linear TV meltdown, with massive write-offs at Warner Discovery and Paramount… and yet, the situation confronting WBD C.E.O. David Zaslav is perhaps the most concerning.
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Dylan Byers • August 7, 2024
The Zaz Squeeze & CBS’s New Hydra
News and notes on a particularly busy August in the industry: David Zaslav’s brutal quarter, CBS News’s uninspiring new management structure, Deb OConnell’s moves at ABC, and Axios’s pivot.
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John Ourand • August 5, 2024
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venu
News and notes on the NFL’s CBS deal, Venu’s nine-year tour, and NBA rights with MoffettNathanson’s Michael Nathanson and Robert Fishman.
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Matthew Belloni • July 29, 2024
Inside the NBA-Warners Showdown
A Studio J-style expert roundtable on how Warner Discovery’s David Zaslav bungled the negotiation, why he sued, what it really means for WBD’s debt and revenue, and what the company might be able to win in a subsequent negotiation or eventual arbitration.