Close the transaction to spin off WarnerMedia and merge it with Discovery
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- Announced
- 1 Feb 2022
- Due
- 30 Jun 2022
- Delivered
- 8 Apr 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The transaction, which will spin off 100% of AT&T’s interest in WarnerMedia to AT&T’s existing shareholders in a pro rata distribution, followed by the merger of WarnerMedia with Discovery, is expected to close in the”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
AT&T completed the separation and merger of its WarnerMedia business with Discovery on April 8, 2022, which occurred within the second quarter of 2022.
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A At&T Inc. 10-Q filed 2022-08-04
“On April 8, 2022, we completed the previously announced separation of our WarnerMedia business... followed by the combination of Spinco with a subsidiary of Discovery, Inc. (Discovery), which was renamed Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD).” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -1.7% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (3 Aug 2022 to 8 Aug 2022). What this measures
Checked 3 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Separation
- Indicative materiality
- Transformational rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- WarnerMedia and Discovery transaction
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to satisfaction of certain conditions, including obtaining all necessary regulatory approvals
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Partner
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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