David Bloom (left) and Daniel Frankel are the hosts of a new video podcast series on Media Play News' YouTube channel.
Check Out Frankel and Bloom on Media Play News’ YouTube Channel!
December 17, 2025
Media Play News is pleased to announce a partnership with Next TMT co-founders Daniel Frankel and David Bloom, who will star in a new series of thought-provoking video podcasts available exclusively on our YouTube channel and, soon, audio podcasts on Spotify and other top platforms.
Their first podcast addresses the hot issue of the day: the proposed sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, or at least the studio and streaming part of the huge media conglomerate, to Netflix.
WBD’s board of directors on Dec. 17 advised its shareholders to reject a $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance and approve the deal with Netflix, which the board has already approved. That deal values the venerable Hollywood media company at $82.7 billion sans its linear cable networks.
Media Play News has been tracking this story closely, and in their debut on the Media Play News YouTube channel, Frankel and Bloom try to make sense of what just unfolded … and predict what happens next.
With not just David Zaslav turning on him, but also seemingly President Trump, will Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison regroup and re-approach WBD investors with another, even bigger hostile bid?