Variety spoke with a dozen CBS insiders to gauge the mood following the completion of the Skydance Paramount merger

Fresh off a merger with Skydance, Paramount is reportedly preparing to make a bid to take control of Warner Bros. Discovery. Here's what we know.

What To Know: According to the Wall Street Journal, Paramount Skydance is preparing a majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with the Ellison family backing the deal. The bid would include its cable networks and movie studio.

Paramount Sports Entertainment will house Skydance Sports, develop scripted and unscripted programming, as well as interactive games and experiences.

Paramount Skydance recruited Dane Glasgow, a veteran tech exec most recently at Meta’s Facebook, as chief product officer. Glasgow reports directly to David Ellison, chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance,

Justin Dini, who steered communications at Viacom and then continued to lead that corporate function amid multiple mergers, transactions, controversies and rebrandings, is departing the company. Dini joined Viacom in 2017 after a stint at blue-blood corporate communications firm Brunswick,