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Paramount CEO to skip Senate hearing on pending WBD merger for personal reason

By David Zimmermann
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Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison intends to skip a planned Senate hearing on the entertainment company’s pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to attend a family member’s funeral instead.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, asked the executive to attend the Wednesday afternoon hearing as a witness and testify on the impact of the Paramount-WBD deal on Hollywood.

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