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Since AT&T bought Time Warner in 2018 to compete with Netflix and Disney, the world of streaming video has only gotten more cutthroat.

AT&T, owner of HBO and Warner Bros studios, and Discovery, home to lifestyle TV networks such as HGTV and TLC, said they will combine their content to form a standalone global entertainment and media business.

AT&T Inc's $43 billion deal on Monday to spin out its WarnerMedia business and combine it with Discovery Inc was among the most ambitious yet in the streaming era. Media bankers and analysts said it will not be the last.

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A quintet of law firms, including Sullivan & Cromwell and Debevoise & Plimpton, is guiding AT&T Inc’s $43 billion deal to spin off its WarnerMedia unit and merge it with reality TV company Discovery Inc.

AT&T Inc spent billions of dollars over the last few years buying media assets, including Time Warner and DirecTV as it looked for growth beyond an increasingly competitive cellular market.

AT&T Inc's proposal to combine its media assets with Discovery Inc will create a streaming giant that is expected to have the firepower to take on the likes of Netflix Inc and Walt Disney Co's Disney+. The new standalone company will bring together the owner of the Harry...

U.S. telecoms giant AT&T Inc is nearing a deal to combine its media assets, including CNN and HBO, with Discovery Inc, the owner of lifestyle TV networks such as HGTV and TLC, according to news reports citing unnamed sources.

AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner in 2018, which spliced together telecommunications and TV programming, was an example of looney-tunes logic. Chief Executive John Stankey has a chance to try and put it right. A possible combination of AT&T’s media assets with Discovery could...

Former world number one Jason Day has not missed a major championship since the 2012 British Open but he could sit out the next two due to the impending arrival of his fourth child.

Hideki Matsuyama said on Tuesday that the two-week COVID-19 quarantine he underwent upon his return to Japan after his Masters triumph last month allowed him a chance to absorb the magnitude of his momentous victory.

Dustin Johnson has withdrawn from the final warm-up event ahead of next week's PGA Championship with knee discomfort, the world number one said on Monday.

AT&T Inc shareholders on Friday voted against a measure to approve executive compensation, according to preliminary voting results from the company's annual meeting.

AT&T Inc beat Wall Street revenue targets as the reopening of the U.S. economy following pandemic-linked restrictions boosted smartphone sales and the media business.

Wall Street's main indexes opened flat on Thursday as investors assessed earnings from U.S. airlines and AT&T, while data showed fewer Americans filed fresh claims for unemployment benefits last week.

AT&T Inc's wireless subscriber additions more than doubled first-quarter estimates, as the reopening of the U.S. economy after months of pandemic-led restrictions boosted its smartphone sales and media business, pushing revenue past Street targets.

Verizon Communications Inc said on Wednesday it lost more wireless subscribers than expected during the first quarter as it battled intense competition from T-Mobile US Inc and AT&T Inc to attract customers.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it had named former communications industry executive Darla Pomeroy as senior adviser to its office of domestic finance.

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived the Communications Workers of America's bid to compel arbitration with a utility company over a seniority dispute, saying a judge was wrong to rule that the union waited too long to sue.