Company profile
- Industry
- Film and entertainment
- Headquarters
- United States
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Decisions on record
One verified Decision Case on Paramount, and the casebook each one belongs to.
| Fork date | Decision type | What Paramount chose | Where it stood | The story | Casebook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Fall | Sell to Skydance | reached 77.5 million subscribers, 15% year-over-year growth (2024-12) | Read the story → | The Fall Casebook → |
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The analyses
The Counterfactual · Decision Forks
Paramount's Two-Step Sale Paid the Redstones About $60 a Share and the Public $23 and $15
The headline calls it an $8 billion merger of a $28 billion company. The real story is a two-step deal where the Redstone family got the equivalent of ~$60 a share, the public got $23 and $15 — and the FCC's approval arrived a day after editorial concessions.
8 min
The Fall · Crisis & Reinvention
Streaming Was Healing at Paramount; the $6 Billion Cable Write-Down Did the Damage
The story is that Paramount was too small to survive streaming. But its streaming arm was fixing itself - DTC losses fell 70% to $497M in 2024 and subs hit 77.5M. What killed the standalone company was a ~$6B cable write-down and a linear business in freefall.
7 min
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- SWOT builderFramework: SWOT Analysis
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