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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete $110 Billion Merger, Forming Skydance

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 15 30 4 Oct 5 Oct 6 Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 6 Oct 18:24 UTC · Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete Merger, Forming Skydance 7 Oct 00:19 UTC · Paramount completes Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, forming Skydance 7 Oct 18:18 UTC · Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete Merger, Forming Skydance 8 Oct 00:17 UTC · Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete $110 Billion Merger, Forming Skydance

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 4 HEADLINES

  1. 6 Oct, 18:24 UTC

    Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete Merger, Forming Skydance

  2. 7 Oct, 00:19 UTC

    Paramount completes Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, forming Skydance

  3. 7 Oct, 18:18 UTC

    Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete Merger, Forming Skydance

  4. 8 Oct, 00:17 UTC

    Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Complete $110 Billion Merger, Forming Skydance

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Warner Bros · 5 outlets
  • Paramount Skydance · 3 outlets

Entered the story later

  • $110 billion acquisition · from 6 Oct 13:57, 3 outlets
  • 200 million direct-to-consumer subscribers · from 6 Oct 16:03, 2 outlets
  • Casey Bloys · from 6 Oct 16:03, 2 outlets