Now heading toward the territory of when, not if, the most vexing obstacle for David Ellison and Paramount ‘s purchase of Warner Bros Discovery looks to be David Zaslav — though probably not for long.

Still, Zaslav is moving ahead with a somewhat-still-fuzzy plan unveiled this past summer to split WBD in half by next spring to free the company of several billion in debt and freefalling cable assets. At the same time, word on the Burbank streets is that Netflix or Amazon could be looking to add some DC or GoT to their balance sheets.

“David’s a dealmaker, that’s who he is,” a streaming exec asserts, putting emphasis on enhanced shareholder value as Zas’ endgame. “He’s always gauging the possibilities and the getting the best value, and that, what I think he is doing here, whet

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