What David Zaslav Has Planned for First Week Leading Warner Bros. Discovery

variety.com:

David Zaslav will be pounding the Diet Cokes, his soft drink of choice, this week as he sprints across the country to Warner Bros.

Discovery’s various outposts.Monday, the first day the new company begins trading on the Nasdaq under the “WBD” ticker, will kick off with a visit to Hudson Yards for a series of informal meet and greets with WarnerMedia employees before he heads to Washington, D.C.

for a meeting with senior executives and CNN anchors at roughly 6 p.m. On Tuesday, Zaslav will visit the company’s Atlanta headquarters.Later this week, the media mogul will jet to Los Angeles where he will hold a company-wide town hall meeting that will be attended by staffers on the lot.

Warner Bros. Discovery employees across the globe will also be able to access the meeting virtually. It should be noted Zaslav’s plans are fluid and could change.The whirlwind week comes after Discovery closed its $43 billion merger on Friday.