{
  "id": 15815255,
  "title": "Versant Unlikely To Acquire Skydance Cable Networks If They Hit The Market, CEO Mark Lazarus Says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/versant-unlikely-to-acquire-skydance-cable-networks-if-they-hit-the",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-20T22:36:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/versant-skydance-cable-tv-networks-ceo-1237169110/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Versant Media CEO Mark Lazarus said the company spun off by Comcast/NBCUniversal earlier this year is unlikely to be a buyer if Skydance looks to shop some of its dozens of cable TV networks. “Buying more cable assets on a large scale would prolong our life but not necessarily make our life better because we […]",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "Versant CEO Says Buying Skydance Cable Networks Is ‘Probably Not in Our Short-Term Future’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/versant-ceo-says-buying-skydance-cable-networks-is-probably-not-in",
        "published": "2026-10-21T00:35:23.000Z"
      }
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  },
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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."
}