A delay in the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has done little to ease anxiety among CNN staff, who reportedly regard the tie-up as "inevitable" regardless of ongoing legal wrangling. The deal would place CNN under the control of David Ellison, and the uncertainty comes at a difficult time for a network that has already been through repeated changes in leadership.

According to Fox News Digital, a CNN insider said colleagues broadly share the view that the merger will ultimately go ahead, and that the postponement caused by the legal battle has failed to lift morale within the company. The report gives no firm timeline for when the merger might be finalised, but underlines the sense of instability at CNN as it awaits new ownership.