{
  "id": 10829825,
  "title": "Paramount's streaming chief is out ahead of the WBD merger. Read the memo she sent to staff.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/paramounts-streaming-chief-is-out-ahead-of-the-wbd-merger-read-the",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-30T01:26:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/paramount-streaming-chief-exits-warner-bros-merger-hbo-david-ellison-2026-9"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Paramount's streaming chief Cindy Holland has announced she will be leaving the company ahead of the planned Warner Bros. Discovery merger. In a memo to staff, Holland stated that CEO David Ellison is optimizing for HBO stability as the merger progresses. The deal, valued at $110 billion, is expected to close within weeks and would make Paramount a major player in Hollywood, with assets including Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. studio, CBS, HBO, and networks such as CNN and MTV. Holland praised the team's accomplishments in the past year, including driving significant strategic and organizational change and achieving strong revenue, profit, and subscriber growth for the division. She expressed pride in the team's resilience, focus, and ambition, and reflected on the remarkable achievements, such as growing Paramount+ to an all-time subscriber high, delivering the best retention in the service's history, and setting records with original series. Holland emphasized the team's unwavering commitment to audiences, creative partners, and one another, and expressed excitement for what the future holds as Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery continue on their path towards merger.",
  "summary": "Paramount Skydance's streaming head exits ahead of the WBD merger. She told staff CEO David Ellison was \"optimizing for HBO stability.\"",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}