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I was reading from Deadline last night that Martin Scorcese, Steven Spielberg and Jean Paul Thomas Anderson were having a emergency meeting with WBD CEO David Zaslav. The meeting was about the current status and future of the TCM channel in the US.

The three directors were meeting with Zaslav over fears that the channel could be hit with major cutbacks while it's under Zaslav's leadership at the studio.

Now in an interesting twist; Zaslav had also mentioned to Deadline that he did not want to see the channel be hit with cutbacks while the studio was under his leadership tenure.

This is the reason why this is happening: WBD is culling its cable network executives and are placing their teams under the direct oversight of Kathleen Finch and Michael Ouweleen. According to Deadline, Ouweleen, who oversees the Cartoon Network brands, is taking over from TCM GM Pola Changnon, a TCM veteran who has been with the network since launch.

TCM has also been hit hard by the cuts. As we noted, Pola Changnon, who was EVP and GM of the cable network and who has been with the company for more than 25 years, is leaving and will be replaced by Michael Ouweleen, the President of Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Discovery Family and Boomerang, who previously oversaw TCM before the merger.

This is a sort of reunion for Ouweleen, who had already administered these brands during the WarnerMedia era (under the Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics division) in an interim basis, before Tom Ascheim was selected to lead the division.

deadline.com 

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More changes coming too: WBD is in talks to license some HBO series (in an non-exclusive deal, they will be still on Max) to Netflix, after moving some of its content to the FAST world (including launching channels on Tubi, The Roku Channel and now on Amazon Freevee).

deadline.com 

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And WBD is also moving on to sell its internal music publishing business (not related to Warner Music Group, now spun-off and separately owned) $500 million. Sony Music is currently the front runner for the library, currently administrated by Universal Music.

variety.com