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In the increasingly fraught fight for eyeballs, WarnerMedia and Discovery stunned the industry on Monday by announcing plans to combine in a deal that sounds like it’s ripped from a Succession storyline.
In doing so, they will create a hulking $52 billion empire, which will be second only to Disney in the U.S. media landscape.
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