[Stuart]

Brilliant Verge article on why this is such a bad idea:

www.theverge.com 

That's a fascinating article, and I think they've hit the nail on the head regarding moving back 100 years to having only a handful of people deciding about most of any new media output.

Perhaps in the UK we have something of a happy compromise at present, where companies collaborate on individual productions rather than jump in to bed will fully fledged mergers. However, Comcast and Paramount Global have their fingers firmly in the UK media pie, so who knows what will eventually happen here?