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How The Skydance-Paramount Post-Merger Hierarchy Is Shaping Up – The Dish

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AUG 3 – Skydance founder David Ellison will serve as CEO with Jeff Shell as President in the new company formed by the August 7 merger of two major U.S. entertainment firms.

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Sources tell us that Skydance-Paramount is going to make official their corporate leadership team tomorrow morning. The combined company’s structure is being announced early Monday ahead of the Aug. 7 merger date. Here’s what we’re hearing is going to go down per sources in the $8 billion-plus transaction: Some of this has already been out there — just take it all with an asterisk. As already indicated, Skydance founder David Ellison will be…

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The new owners of Paramount set up their management team before the end of the Skydance merger on August 7. Andy Gordon, who runs the West Coast office of Redbird Capital Partners, should play the lead operations role and strategic director. Redbird joined Skydance to acquire Paramount Global for $8.5 billion. Gordon is already working with Jeff Shell, who will be the president of Paramount and who has been in Redbird for two years after his rel…

In her dissent on the approval of the Paramount-Skydance merger, Anna Gomez described the move as “a cowardly capitulation that sets a dangerous precedent, reforming the future of entertainment while simultaneously eroding press freedom.” Gomez was in the minority vote (2-1) of members of the Federal Communications Commission, the federal agency that regulates communications in the US, including radio, television, newspapers, satellite, cable, e…

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AFV broke the news in on Saturday, August 2, 2025.
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