Adding CNN to the Larry Ellison blob. Here is the inventory as of this afternoon, by how the Ellisons got it.
From buying Paramount in August 2025: CBS and its 29 owned stations, CBS News, 60 Minutes, CBS Sports, Paramount Pictures, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Showtime, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, CMT, Paramount Network, Smithsonian Channel, Channel 5 in Britain, Network 10 in Australia, and the U.S. rights to the UFC for seven years at about $7.7 billion. Argentina's Telefe and Chile's Chilevisión were sold off within months.
From buying The Free Press in October 2025 for about $150 million: the newsletter, its podcast, and Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News, reporting to David Ellison.
From buying all of Warner Bros. Discovery today for $110 billion: CNN and CNN International, HBO and HBO Max, Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line, DC Studios, Warner Bros. Television and Games, TNT, TBS, TNT Sports, Discovery and discovery+, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and Eurosport. The film library runs from The Godfather to Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible and SpongeBob, plus distribution of Dune 3 and the next Minecraft.
Through Oracle, where Larry Ellison owns about 40%: a 15% stake and one of seven board seats in the TikTok U.S. joint venture formed January 22, 2026, which hosts the American data and retrains the recommendation algorithm. That is a vendor and part-owner role, not personal ownership of TikTok.
And Larry himself: Oracle, 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, a $1 billion stake from 2022 in Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, and the Ellison Institute of Technology at Oxford.
The combined company is called Skydance, ticker SKYD. The closing filing says the Ellison family and RedBird hold 100% of the voting shares. Saudi Arabia's PIF, Abu Dhabi's L'imad and Qatar's QIA own 38.5% of it and vote on nothing.