This week, Puck senior correspondents William D. Cohan and Dylan Byers discussed the latest tectonic shifts rearranging the media-entertainment-tech landscape: Brian Roberts’ fantasy M&A thesis, Warren Buffett’s $2.6 billion Paramount arbitrage, and David Zaslav’s next moves. Herewith, a lightly spruced-up transcription of that conversation, and more.
William D. Cohan: So, Dylan, maybe we could start this dialogue with you sharing with Puck readers what else you have learned about the intriguing idea that you reported last week: that Comcast gave serious consideration to merging its NBCU subsidiary with EA Sports, the large gaming company. What’s the latest with this deal, especially since EA, as you’ve said, has basically put itself up for sale?
