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Discovery Chief David Zaslav Sees CNN, WarnerMedia Movies, TV As New Opportunities

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDiscovery’s CEO feels a combination of WarnerMedia and his company will create a new media company that is “uniquely competitive with Netflix and Disney,” and articulated the need to have a global footprint in the future in order to compete in the entertainment industry’s streaming wars.Discovery last week stuck a pact with AT&T to take over WarnerMedia operations in a deal that executives hope will pass regulatory muster by mid 2022.

WarnerMedia’s movie and TV studio and CNN cable-news network represent new opportunities for Discovery, which is slated to take over management of those operations as part of a new deal with AT&T that should be put into action next year, according to Discovery CEO David Zaslav..

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