WARNER BROS CEO Says "We Are NOT FOR SALE", Also WB Gets Sued For Faking HBO Max Subscriber Numbers!

Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday held a company-wide global town hall, with CEO David Zaslav and his top creative deputies discussing the current state of the company, and their vision for where it should be going.

Zaslav was joined in the room by HBO chief Casey Bloys, Warner Bros. film chiefs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy and Warner Bros. TV topper Channing Dungey, according to an attendee.

WBD is “absolutely not for sale,” Zaslav told attendees, highlighting the company’s assets and “global reach.”

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WARNER BROS CEO Says "We Are Not For Sale", Also WB Get Sued For Faking HBO Max Subscriber Numbers!

An Illinois police pension board brought the suit suggesting ”hundreds of thousands“ of Discovery shareholders were duped

Warner Bros. cooked its HBO Max subscriber numbers by as many as 10 million and misled shareholders in other ways that violate the Securities Act to complete its merger with Discovery, according to a class-action lawsuit that claims it could potentially represent “hundreds of thousands” of plaintiffs.

The lawsuit was filed last Friday in New York on behalf of the Collinsville Police Pension Board, an Illinois-based shareholder of Warner Bros. Discovery stock, which it accepted in trade for its pre-merger Class C common Discovery shares. At the time of the merger, Discovery shares were valued at $24.78; as of Tuesday, WBD shares were trading just above $11.

The lawsuit names Warner Bros. Discovery, CEO David Zaslav, and CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels as defendants. WBD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The lawsuit says that, among several other “adverse information” being kept hidden, the merging companies overstated the subscriber base for HBO Max:

“WarnerMedia was improvidently concentrating its investments in streaming and ignoring its other business lines … [and] overstated the number of subscribers to HBO Max by as many as 10 million subscribers, by including as subscribers AT&T customers who had received bundled access to HBO Max, but had not signed onto the service.”

More than 700 million shares of WBD were issued to Discovery common and preferred shareholders pursuant to the merger, the lawsuit states, meaning “hundreds of thousands” of people could potentially join the federal securities class-action filed in a New York federal district court.

Discovery and the WarnerMedia division of AT&T announced their merger plans in May 2021, and closed this year on April 8.

The lawsuit says “the Registration Statement and Prospectus and certain of the Defendants’ other public statements, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state material facts required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.”

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It also said “AT&T was overinvesting in WarnerMedia entertainment content for streaming, without sufficient concern for return on investments … WarnerMedia had a business model to
grow the number of subscribers to its streaming service without regard to cost or profitability.”

The plaintiff, a pension fund to benefit current and former police officers in Collinsville, Illinois, suggests that anyone who purchased WBD on the open market post-merger is qualified to join the lawsuit.

It’s seeking a jury trial for monetary damages, alleging three separate Securities and Exchange Commission violations.