Paramount-Skydance deal likely to remain in | Gossip Wire

For the people operating Skydance Media, a “quick and clean” regulatory approval to buy Paramount Global has been changed by “long and slow” — and that’s in the event that they’re fortunate, On The Money has realized.

The long-awaited merger’s last consummation is likely to remain in regulatory purgatory for the foreseeable future, authorities officers say. Despite continued heavy lobbying – and taking part in the so-called Trump card reminding the media world that Larry Ellison, one of the president-elect’s largest boosters is the daddy of Skydance chief David Ellison– the new…