{"id":8071,"date":"2021-05-17T13:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-response-to-att-discovery-merger-to-unwind-warnermedia\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:05:26","slug":"common-cause-response-to-att-discovery-merger-to-unwind-warnermedia","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/press\/common-cause-response-to-att-discovery-merger-to-unwind-warnermedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph\u1ea3n \u1ee9ng chung \u0111\u1ed1i v\u1edbi v\u1ee5 s\u00e1p nh\u1eadp AT&amp;T\/Discovery nh\u1eb1m th\u00e1o g\u1ee1 WarnerMedia"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8071","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Today, AT&amp;T and Discovery Inc. announced a $43 billion deal to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery. Under the deal, AT&amp;T will spin off its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner to form a new company with Discovery. The new company will combine the media assets of WarnerMedia with Discovery.\r\n\r\nThe announcement of the deal comes just three years after AT&amp;T acquired Time Warner, which Common Cause opposed.","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[134,136,2065],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Today, AT&amp;T and Discovery Inc. announced a $43 billion deal to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery. Under the deal, AT&amp;T will spin off its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner to form a new company with Discovery. The new company will combine the media assets of WarnerMedia with Discovery.\r\n\r\nThe announcement of the deal comes just three years after AT&amp;T acquired Time Warner, which Common Cause <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommoncause.org%2Fpress-release%2Ffederal-judge-decision-to-approve-att-time-warner-merger-is-a-loss-for-consumers-competition-and-innovation%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CYGetachew%40commoncause.org%7C7eb9f0cfd16f4d72815408d91950bfbd%7Cdb39e4b4de324cf9b66e9d02d8172178%7C0%7C0%7C637568656914699487%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=str6%2FP5uvZ3Ml14MOQxz71zfkUpDipF%2FhM3ioknnjUA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">opposed<\/a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Tuy\u00ean b\u1ed1 c\u1ee7a Michael Copps, C\u1ef1u \u1ee6y vi\u00ean FCC v\u00e0 C\u1ed1 v\u1ea5n \u0111\u1eb7c bi\u1ec7t v\u1ec1 m\u1ee5c \u0111\u00edch chung<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\u201cThe AT&amp;T\/Time Warner merger has proven to be as disastrous as many of us predicted. After three years, millions of dollars of debt, and waves of layoffs, the deal has not only failed the public interest test but has not made any business sense either. Now, AT&amp;T is seeking a bailout from a merger that should have never been approved by spinning off WarnerMedia in a deal with Discovery. While the deal is being touted as good for \u2018scale,\u2019 it will undoubtedly cost worker jobs, billions more in company debt, and consumer harms. The merger does not even begin to register on the scale of the public interest.\u201d"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common Cause Response to AT&amp;T\/Discovery Merger to Unwind WarnerMedia - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/press-releases\/common-cause-response-to-att-discovery-merger-to-unwind-warnermedia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"vi_VN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Cause Response to AT&amp;T\/Discovery Merger to Unwind WarnerMedia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/nhan\/common-cause-response-to-att-discovery-merger-to-unwind-warnermedia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-response-to-att-discovery-merger-to-unwind-warnermedia\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-response-to-att-discovery-merger-to-unwind-warnermedia\/\",\"name\":\"Common Cause Response to AT&amp;T\/Discovery Merger to Unwind WarnerMedia - 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