{"id":14023,"date":"2025-09-08T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14023"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:52:26","slug":"malone-the-man-on-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/08\/malone-the-man-on-paramount\/","title":{"rendered":"Malone The Man On Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/paramount-merger-saga-john-malone-sumner-redstone-barry-diller-1236507848\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paramount\u2019s Previous Merger Saga Revisited: John Malone Concedes \u201cSmart Move\u201d By Sumner Redstone But \u201cHuge Disappointment\u201d For Barry Diller<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/dade-hayes\/\">Dade Hayes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/paley.jpg?w=681&amp;h=383&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"John Malone at a Paley Center event in New York marking the publication of his book, &quot;Born to Be Wired and the Next Era of Media.&quot;\" style=\"width:706px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start; white-space: normal;\"><em>John Malone on Thursday<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space: normal;\"><em>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space: normal;\"><em>Courtesy of The Paley Center for Media<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Media moguls and frequent business collaborators\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-malone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Malone<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/barry-diller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barry Diller<\/a> spent part of Thursday\u2019s panel session at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paley-center-for-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paley Center for Media<\/a>\u00a0recalling the one that got away:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount-pictures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paramount Pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a luncheon session that also featured Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and former Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, Malone touched on a lot of the material in his new book.&nbsp;<em>Born to Be Wired: Lessons from a Lifetime Transforming Television, Wiring America for the Internet, and Growing Formula One, Discovery, SiriusXM, and the Atlanta Braves<\/em>&nbsp;was published this week by Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/paramount-merger-saga-john-malone-sumner-redstone-barry-diller-1236507848\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Paramount\u2019s Previous Merger Saga Revisited: John Malone Concedes \u201cSmart Move\u201d By Sumner Redstone But \u201cHuge Disappointment\u201d For Barry Diller By\u00a0Dade Hayes Media moguls and frequent business collaborators\u00a0John Malone\u00a0and\u00a0Barry Diller spent part of Thursday\u2019s panel session at the\u00a0Paley Center for Media\u00a0recalling the one that got away:\u00a0Paramount Pictures. During a luncheon session that also featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}