This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
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And we preview the draw for the 2026 FIFA Football World Cup which takes place today in Washington.
We begin where the huge deal set to dramatically reshape the U.S.
film and media landscape.
After complex and competitive negotiations, Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros.
streaming and studio business for $72 billion.
Jesse Whittock is the international TV co-editor for the entertainment media website Deadline.
He told my colleague James Kumrasami about the deal.
Effectively, what you're seeing here is the streaming assets and the studio Warner Brothers,
the venerable Hollywood business, switching hands in joining the Netflix streaming service.
So it's quite a symbolic moment really in that you've got a streaming service taking over one of America's kind of traditional media companies.
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