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Media Spin Cycle: M&A Outlook For 2025
The media industry closes out 2024 in a landscape very different than a year ago as the biggest players begin to manage the decline of linear TV.
Silver Lake taking Endeavor private, Sony Pictures Entertainment buying the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain, and Disney investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Epic Games, are notable. “The explicit separation” of networks from streaming and studios mirrors Comcast’s recent spinoff announcement, said Doug Creutz of TD Cowen, noting WBD’s emphasis on strategic flexibility and shareholder value creation. When Sony briefly tried to buy Paramount, Ari Emanuel and James Cameron came out publicly in support of a Skydance deal, reflecting understandable industry angst over two more major studios combining after Disney bought Fox in 2019.
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