Oh goodie! A thread for me!
It's just been pitiful watching Warner Bros. Discovery basically destroy itself over the last 2 years.
We're now at the point where we're seeing great channels/brands like Cartoon Network get just utterly gutted and stripped for parts. Focusing on CN for a bit, the website is gone. The studio is gone (legally, it exists, but in reality, it is just a label for certain productions from Warner Bros. Animation, as I understand it). The network ends at 4pm where I live. 4pm! When I was a kid, that was the time I would start watching Nickelodeon when PBS Kids ended! (I was a homeschooled PBS kid back in the day, but I digress.) That's when my niece gets home from school! They can't even reach big chunks of their target audience on their own channel now! And the fact that they shut down the website proves they don't care about it beyond having it as a brand for some franchises and some shows on HBO Max. It's funny thinking back to how people were screeching about the death of CN in 2018. At least it was still treated as useful. At least the network seemed like it had life. They barely exist now.
That, of course, doesn't even scratch the surface of WBD's problems right now. How about the drastic increase in write-offs since the merger happened? We might never legally see any of the shows or movies that got written off again, if they were ever released in the first place that is. How about the fact that their net income last year was negative 3 billion dollars? How about the fact that they just admitted they lost 10 billion dollars and took a 9 billion dollar write down on their cable biz? I have no idea how WBD is going to recover from this, but it won't happen under Zaslav. Maybe the fact that his way of running the company is losing them probably more money than ever will finally convince their board to fire him.