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Eurosports draws record audiences for Roland Garros

Eurosport reports that its production of this year’s Roland-Garros tennis tournament engaged larger audiences across Europe than ever before across all platforms. With the launch of Max, Warner Bros Discovery’s (WBD) enhanced streaming service including Eurosport, combined with its other streaming platforms including discovery+, unique streaming viewers grew by 29 per cent year-on-year with streaming […]

June 12, 2024

Max live in France, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium

Max is now live and available to watch in France and Poland, completing Warner Bros Discovery’s (WBD) first wave of European launches that began in May. Following these latest launches, Max is available in 25 countries in Europe, spanning Iberia, France, Benelux, Nordics, and Central and Eastern Europe and 65 countries and territories in total […]

June 11, 2024By Nik Roseveare

WBD sees record audiences for Roland-Garros week 1

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced its coverage of the first week of Roland-Garros saw record audiences on its streaming platforms and has delivered its highest tournament television audience on Eurosport in eight years. Across Europe (excluding France), viewership on Eurosport’s television channels has risen by +45 per cent year-on-year with WBD’s total streaming audience, […]

June 4, 2024

OSN signs WBD content deal in MENA

OSN, the MENA entertainment company, has acquired the rights to all-new first run Max Originals and Warner Bros Pictures feature films in an exclusive multi-year deal with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).   Subscribers will now enjoy access to Warner Bros Pictures film catalogue and exclusive Pay 1 features in MENA following their theatrical and home entertainment […]

May 28, 2024

Spain: Max on all platforms

Max, the successor to HBO Max, is available through all the major telcos in Spain: Movistar, Vodafone, Orange as well as cable companies Euskaltel, R and Telecable. All operators are now promoting the service with different optios in their packages. Movistar is offering Max in six different packages from €16 to €36 a month Ficción […]

May 23, 2024From David Del Valle in Madrid

France: Canal+ launches TV+ streaming offer

Canal+ Group has announced the launch of a €2 per month streaming offering in France called TV+. Coming just a few weeks after the arrival of the TF1+ and M6+ streaming platforms in the country, the French pay-TV broadcaster is bringing all its live TV and replay offering into a single destination, along with a […]

May 22, 2024From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Max begins European rollout

Warner Bros Discovery’s (WBD) Max, streaming service is now officially live in 20 countries across the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe. The countries include Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Max offers subscribers an […]

May 21, 2024

Kidazzle named master toy licensee for Lion Forge’s IYANU

Kidazzle, a new toy company founded by industry veterans Steve Rosenthal, Don Robbins, and Jeff Jones, has launched with the acquisition as master toy licensee for Iyanu, Lion Forge Entertainment’s highly anticipated superhero animated series set to premiere on Cartoon Network and Max. “Iyanu” is an adaptation of Dark Horse Comics/YouNeek Studios’ popular graphic novel […]

May 21, 2024

Magnolia unscripted slate coming to Max

Debuting this autumn, Magnolia Network will launch its new family-friendly unscripted content slate created for Max. From large-scale competitions to out-of-the-box social experiments, this content initiative for Max will be produced specifically for the whole household to watch together. Executive produced by Chip and Joanna Gaines, the new series set to premiere this autumn on […]

May 17, 2024

HBO & Max doc NASTY arrives on Max

The original bad boy of tennis, Romanian player Ilie Năstase is the subject of NASTY, a new documentary that chronicles his life and outstanding career of achievements. The co-production for Max between HBO Documentaries Europe and Romanian Libra Films, will be released in 23 territories in the week of the Max streaming platform’s launch across […]

May 15, 2024