00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.
00:02Entertainment workers, small business owners, and politicians gathered Saturday for the first stop
00:07of a three-city Main Street versus the merger tour, according to Reuters. The event brought
00:13together opponents of Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner
00:19Brothers Discovery. Stand-up comedian Adam Conover headlined the event, calling media
00:23consolidation an existential threat to American cultural power. Conover said the industry is
00:29about to die and cited his passion for opposing the deal. Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison
00:35pledged the combined studios would release at least 30 films a year and said the merger would
00:40not hurt other studios or creative talent. U.S. antitrust regulators appear poised to approve the
00:45deal. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.
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