Close the combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 17 May 2021
- Due
- 30 Jun 2022
- Delivered
- 11 Apr 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The transaction is anticipated to close in mid-2022, subject to approval by Discovery shareholders and customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory approvals.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company successfully completed the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, with shares of the combined entity beginning to trade on April 11, 2022, which is prior to the mid-2022 deadline.
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A Warner Bros. Discovery 10-K filed 2023-02-24
“On April 11, 2022, the Company’s shares started trading on Nasdaq under the trading symbol WBD. The Merger was executed through a Reverse Morris Trust type transaction” ✓ confirmed on the page
Checked 17 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Transaction other
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- Combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to approval by Discovery shareholders; customary closing conditions; receipt of regulatory approvals
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Shareholder
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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