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SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 The Family That Now Owns Your Childhood Paramount Skydance's roughly $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery cleared its last legal obstacle this week, and the list of what one company now controls is almost absurd to read in one sentence: CBS and CNN, HBO and MTV, SpongeBob and Bugs Bunny, Harry Potter and Transformers. The federal government approved the deal in June with zero conditions attached. It took twelve state attorneys general suing on their own, separately, to get any guardrails at all — and even then, nobody broke anything up. I built the org chart and read the settlement so you don't have to.