Doug Herzog , a former top exec at Viacom (now part of Paramount) says his alma mater will soon look a lot different in the wake of its just-closed merger with Skydance.

“I would believe that 24 months from now, when we take a look at Paramount, it will not closely resemble what it is today,” Herzog said in a TV of Tomorrow podcast appearance Friday. “And I honestly think that’s the way forward. These legacy media companies, if they’re going to survive – and, by the way, survival is not mandatory – I think they kind of have to blow it up and take some chances and embrace the tech world in a way that they have slowly been doing, which I think you’ll see at Paramount.”

The conversation hosted by Rick Howe, himself a cable vet and a former Showtime exec, touched on a number of Herzog’s a

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