With the WarnerMedia/Discovery merger set to close next month, Discovery has confirmed that HBO Max and Discovery+ will be combined into one streaming offering. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels confirmed the news speaking at the Deutsche Bank 30th Annual Media, Internet & Telecom Conference. Wiedenfels said that combining HBO Max and Discovery Plus into a new […]
Discovery has announced that the Company’s stockholders have approved various matters relating to the acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T to create Warner Bros Discovery. The transaction will bring together WarnerMedia’s entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. At a Special Meeting of Discovery Stockholders, based on estimated preliminary […]
HBO Max, the SVoD service from WarnerMedia, is now available in 61 territories globally after launching in 15 additional European countries, including the Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The platform launches with a promotion offering all customers in Central and Eastern Europe and Portugal more than 30 per cent off the monthly price for […]
WarnerMedia Kids & Family and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, have announced the next phase of their growing content partnership. Sesame Street Mecha Builders, the first of many new Sesame Workshop originals for WarnerMedia’s Cartoonito preschool programming block, is set to debut on HBO Max and Cartoon Network in early May. More […]
ITV has signed an agreement with WarnerMedia International Television Distribution which will make the UK content network the exclusive free-to-air home of programmes including the The Sex Lives of College Girls, a comedy series created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble. The first season will have its UK premiere exclusively on ITV Hub and ITV2 […]
Soon-to-launch streaming services CNN+ will be priced at $5.99 (€5.41) per month (the same price as Fox Nation), or $55.99 per annum, although a promotional – and lifetime – rate has been set for subscribers who sign up early for the service of $2.99 per month. A bundle also on offer will combine CNN+ with […]
Four of the leading national programmers in the US – AMC Networks, Discovery, TelevisaUnivision and WarnerMedia – have teamed up with Canoe Ventures to further enable national addressable television advertising. As a result of these separate, multi-year agreements, Canoe will be providing enablement and ongoing campaign service assurance across its national addressable TV advertising footprint, […]
In 2021, the dynamics of the SVoD OTT market in Latin America were altered by the entrance of some of the world’s largest content producers, namely Disney (with Disney+) and Warner Media (with HBO Max), notes Dataxis. As a result of this increased competition, the subscription growth reached an all-time record, with a 47.2 per […]
Discovery’s proposed acquisition of TV and film studio WarnerMedia has passed the US Department of Justice’s antitrust review, clearing another hurdle toward closing. The $43 billion (€37.59bn) deal, which was first announced in May 2021, received unconditional antitrust clearance from the European Commission in December. WarnerMedia parent AT&T Corp has also received a letter from […]
HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s SVoD platform, will launch in a further 15 European countries on March 8th. This follows the roll out of the service in the Nordics and Spain in October 2021. The 15 countries are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and […]