This Future of TV Briefing covers the latest in streaming and TV for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series →This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the M&A deals that could should be in the offing after an active first half of 2026.
Remember the merger-mania period of the late 2010s? Disney-20th Century Fox. Discovery-Scripps. AT&T-Time Warner. Viacom-CBS. Televisa-Univision. Well, the mid-2020s are starting to feel like that.
This year alone Paramount Skydance is closing in on Warner Bros. Discovery (maybe). Fox has agreed to acquire Roku. And Comcast has decided to spin out NBCUniversal. All of which raises the question: What other potential deals are on the table?
In the spirit of summer being a time to sit back and prep for the fall and future, here is a wildly speculative rundown of three more mega-deals that may be in the offing, including cases for why they could and could not happen and the conditions under which they should happen.
Disclaimer: I won’t be getting into the regulatory challenges nor financial considerations of any of these deals because with this government and this economy, who the hell knows….
