Now that David Ellison's Skydance has secured the keys to Paramount Global, what toys await him inside the company's intellectual property chest? After a nail-biting federal approval process that inspired backlash,

With this week’s FCC approval, the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media is expected to be completed in the coming weeks at a value of $8 billion. The question for the new company is whether the psychic cost is much higher.

Paramount’s cable business has cratered. The news division is in turmoil. A.I. is coming for movies. And those are just the obvious challenges facing David Ellison as he takes control.

Upon the deal’s closing, Skydance and its financial partners are set inject $1.5 billion in cash into Paramount. However, that’s intended to go toward reducing Paramount’s long-term debt ($14.16 billion as of Q1 of 2025) to help stabilize its balance sheet.

This week, 'South Park,' Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert all savaged the same (tiny?) thing as the company faces an uprising over its small-minded handling of its legacy properties.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was asked to respond to criticisms of the Trump administration's intervention in the free press.

The Oracle chairman will not have any "veto rights, or any special or outsized voting rights," per an amendment filed with the FCC