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Barry Diller Wants To Buy CNN “Before They Ruin It Any Further”: “Hopefully Before It’s Extinct”

Deadline·Armando Tinoco·27 days ago
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Barry Diller is weighing in on CNN and is open to buying the news organization before it’s too late to salvage. During an appearance at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival, Diller made the bold claim about the news network. “Absolutely, I would do it tonight and tomorrow night,” he said, according to TWSJ . “Before they ruin it any further. Hopefully, before it’s extinct, which, I mean, it’s not gonna be.” Diller added that CNN is “so ripe” for innovation and noted that they have invested in becoming a digital property, but he thinks it needs more investment in its on-air programming. Watch on Deadline “So how they do that and navigate also running the surviving businesses…I don’t know,” he said. CNN is currently owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, with Paramount agreeing to buy and merge the company in an $81 billion deal. If the merger goes through, Diller noted that the cuts will be a “savage process.” Diller is familiar with restructuring and layoffs, as his Interactive Corp.…

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