David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav thinks putting Donald Trump backmost successful the White House could connection a friendlier situation for large media mergers. “We person an upcoming caller administration,” Zaslav said during an net telephone connected Thursday. “It’s excessively aboriginal to tell, but it whitethorn connection a gait of alteration and an accidental for consolidation that whitethorn beryllium rather different.”

Zaslav made the connection successful effect to a question astir streaming partnerships, saying changes nether the Trump medication could person “a existent affirmative and accelerated impact” connected the amusement industry. With much contention than ever successful streaming, it’s getting harder for services to get a viewer’s undivided attention.

“This is an manufacture that truly needs to consolidate,” Zaslav said. “Consumers enactment connected a TV acceptable and they spot 16 apps, and each of those are doing antithetic pricing and you’re sitting determination with your telephone and Googling wherever a amusement is... it’s conscionable not a bully user experience.”