Did David Zaslav’s Grand Vision Fail? As WBD and Other Media Giants Move Pieces Around, They Can’t Outrun the Cable Math

Four years ago, David Zaslav insisted that Discovery Communications together with what was then called WarnerMedia was more than the sum of its parts. They had a “formidable” lineup of global assets, he said.

“When you put us together — Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Sex and the City,’ HBO and Discovery being everywhere in the world with local content — we’re better together,” Zaslav said in 2021, explaining the logic behind combining Discovery and WarnerMedia (then owned by AT&T).

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Fast-forward to today, and the math has changed. Zaslav has now reversed course, announcing that Warner Bros. Discovery will

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