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merger/management changes over the next year plus a projected debt ratio of 4.5 times annual earnings. Zaslav has projected early savings of nearly $4B (staff adjustments). ViacomCBS has quietly rolled out Paramount+ with an estimated subscriber base of 50M and has more than 30,000 episodes and movies from BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. Comcast/NBC has an estimated 55M subscribers for its Peacock streaming services – both ad free and ad-supported (5 minutes of ads per hour). The company has a library of 15,000 plus hours of content including Universal Studios films. Apple TV+ has the smallest content library in the industry but the largest potential built-in target audience – 588M Apple device users worldwide. The digital giant has also delivered some of the most widely respected projects over the past two years – Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, For All Mankind, Foundation, The Banker, Greyhound, The Me You Can’t See, For All Mankind, Coda and more. A decision to offer Apple + free to customers who purchase two devices obviously opens the door to a huge and dedicated global market. Between last year and 2026, global SVOD subscriptions will increase by 491 million to