Link: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-03-03/paramount-credit-downgraded-to-junk-status

For those of us wondering how fragile the Skydance-Paramount + WBDiscovery financial construct actually is, it seems that the markets are posing similar questions.

TLDR: despite Ellison senior’s guaranteeing the additional billions in debt, the ratings firms are reclassifying Paramount downwards into a junk bond category.

From the article:

Fitch Ratings said Monday that it placed Paramount on its “negative” ratings watch, and downgraded its credit to BB+ from BBB-, which puts the company’s credit into “junk” territory. Fitch said it took action due to “uncertainty” surrounding Paramount’s $110-billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, which the boards of both companies approved on Friday.

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Wow to even READ an article on LA times I give up my rights. Fuck off LA times and your shit-ass lawyers.

So, Netflix may still win in the end by getting them all in a fire sale! Yay, capitalism consolidation!

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