Warner Bros Discovery CEO sees more industry deals under Trump

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(Reuters) Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav anticipates a friendlier environment for deal-making under the incoming Trump administration, opening the door to industry consolidation, he said on Thursday...

Warner Bros Discovery and its peers are navigating through what Zaslav described as a generational disruption, confronting an erosion of its lucrative television business as millions of consumers migrate to streaming video services...

Earlier on Thursday, Warner Bros Discovery reported a surprise quarterly profit, helped by cost controls and an Olympics-driven record jump in streaming subscribers that made up for a lack of major box-office hits from its studio...

Warner Bros Discoverys streaming business, home to the Max and Discovery+ services, added 7.2 million direct-to-consumer subscribers in the third quarter, beating estimates for 6.28 million additions, according to data compiled by Visible Alpha...

Max delivered its strongest quarterly subscriber gain since the platforms launch, Zaslav said, calling it a meaningful moment that had capped two years of building the service and reversing millions of dollars in losses...

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