Overview
Reuters quotes Ronan Scanlan in an article titled "Britain's Paramount-Warner review may be aimed at commitments, not a veto." The article discusses how the UK government's potential intervention in the Paramount–Warner Bros. deal appears to be aimed less at blocking the deal than at leveraging a review to secure concessions on UK news, children's programming, and investment, using the risk and cost of delay to pressure Paramount into agreeing.
When discussing strategy to potentially "appear tougher on global deals with a UK dimension," Ronan explains how "this is likely sabre rattling with a view to setting down a marker going forward for global deals and extracting some concessions, in this case around children's and general programming in the UK."
Read the full article in Reuters.
