What is a hostile bid? Inside Paramount's maneuver to take over Warner Bros. Discovery

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM CST

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The Discovery Communications logo atop its headquarters in Silver Spring, Md, July 31, 2017. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Paramount has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix announced plans to acquire part of the same company just last week.

For more on what a hostile takeover is and what this means for the industry, host Robin Young speaks to Roben Farzad, host of the podcast Full Disclosure.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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