{"id":6730,"date":"2026-09-15T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:10:42","slug":"survey-americans-skeptical-of-benefits-from-paramount-takeover-of-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2026\/09\/15\/survey-americans-skeptical-of-benefits-from-paramount-takeover-of-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Americans skeptical of benefits from Paramount takeover of Warner Bros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are skeptical that the proposed purchase of Warner Bros.-Discovery by Paramount Skydance would benefit them, according to the latest Media &#038; Technology Survey from the Communication Research Center at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication.<\/p>\n<p>The $110 billion acquisition was approved in June by the U.S. Department of Justice but put on hold by Paramount citing a lawsuit brought by 12 state attorneys general.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that such a merger, bringing together two major movie studios, CBS, CNN and HBO under one roof, would harm consumers and people who work in the industry \u2013 and the survey suggests a majority of Americans share these worries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/americans-skeptical-of-benefits-from-paramount-takeover-of-warner-bros-survey-suggests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are skeptical that the proposed purchase of Warner Bros.-Discovery by Paramount Skydance would benefit them, according to the latest Media &#038; Technology Survey from the Communication Research Center at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication. The $110 billion acquisition was approved in June by the U.S. Department of Justice but put on hold by Paramount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}