{"id":48098,"date":"2018-04-03T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=48098"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:11:44","slug":"update-on-potential-cbsviacom-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/04\/update-on-potential-cbsviacom-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Update On Potential CBS\/Viacom Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations are proceeding in the merger talks between <em>CBS <\/em>and<em> Viacom<\/em>, but all is not well.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Reuters, CBS<\/em> &#8220;intends to make a low-ball all-stock offer for <em>Viacom<\/em> \u2014 valuing the company below its current market cap of about twelve billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another issue in the discussions is the management.<em> CBS<\/em> Chairman-CEO <strong>Leslie Moonves<\/strong> would be in charge and he would like <strong>Joe Ianniello<\/strong>, his current chief operating officer, to be his number two.<em> Viacom<\/em> would prefer <em>Viacom<\/em> President-CEO <strong>Bob Bakish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street observers are not sure if this merger will ever happen. &#8220;The negotiations between the <em>Viacom <\/em>and<em> CBS<\/em> boards will be difficult,&#8221; which &#8220;has also raised the prospect of the tables turning with<em> Viacom<\/em> making an all-stock offer for <em>CBS<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>CBS <\/em>and<em> Viacom <\/em>own<em> Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations are proceeding in the merger talks between CBS and Viacom, but all is not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700],"tags":[3278,3071],"class_list":["post-48098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cbs","tag-viacom"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a>","tag_info":"Business","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48100,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48098\/revisions\/48100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}