( August 7, 2026, 14:22 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Block the Merger coalition said Paramount Skydance's concessions in the UK show support for the US states' case to block the the company's proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. "If this merger required binding remedies even in the UK, where Paramount and Warner hold a far weaker market position and the CMA has grown reluctant to block big mergers, the dangers in the more concentrated US market are unmistakable. Here, the deal would unite two of the top three basic cable programmers and create exactly the anti-competitive, anti-consumer, and anti-creator harms our antitrust laws guard against," the coalition said.Statement follows below:...
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