Tag: HBO Max
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‘Gone With the Wind’ is Coming Back to HBO Max
Last week, HBO Max removed ‘Gone with the Wind’ from its content library in a decision that Bob Greenblatt, WarnerMedia’s entertainment and direct-to-consumer chairman called “a no-brainer” in an interview on Sirius XM. Greenblatt explained that removing the film was not a permanent change, but that the company wanted to present the title “in the…
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WarnerMedia Will Retire HBO Go Next Month
WarnerMedia announced today that it will retire HBO Go, the streaming app for pay TV customers, on July 31. “Now that HBO Max has launched and is widely distributed, we can implement some significant changes to our app offering in the U.S.,” the company said in a statement. “Most customers who have traditionally used HBO…
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HBO Max is Closing in on 2 Million App Downloads
HBO Max is nearing the 2 million mark for new app downloads in the two weeks since its May 27th launch date. The reinvented app that merged HBO Now with the new streaming services has accumulated approximately 1.7 million downloads by new users in the first two weeks. The app drew in 337,000 mobile installs…
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HBO Max is Currently #1 in the Apple App Store
Just a week after launch and the HBO Max streaming app is currently sitting in the number one spot on the Apple app store according to a research company called App Annie. If this is any indication of HBO’s subscriber count, offhand it looks like the beginning of a successful story. However, according to Sensor…
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HBO Max Won’t Count Toward AT&T Mobile Data Caps
AT&T, the parent company of HBO Max, says that the streaming service won’t affect AT&T mobile data caps. The question about whether AT&T customers could hit thei data cap by streaming HBO Max was asked on Vergecast, a podcast from The Verge, in a conversation with AT&T exec Tony Goncalves. While Goncalves didn’t have a…
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Here’s Everything Leaving HBO Max
HBO Max launched this week, advertising that it would include 10,000 hours of content. HBO Max includes content from HBO and Warner Bros., but also hosts content from other studios including Paramount and Universal. Unfortunately, due to licensing issues, not only was some content missing from the lineup on launch day, but the new streaming…
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Can You Get a Free Trial With HBO Max?
Now that HBO Max has officially launched, you might be wondering whether or not it’s worth subscribing to yet another service. With the pricey monthly subscription fee and shows you’ve already seen so many times you know them by heart (Read: Friends), you might be stuck between wanting to see what the hype is about and…
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HBO Max Library Was Missing Titles at Launch
Before launching this week, HBO Max sent out lists of the content that would be available on the streaming service on day one. When viewers got a chance to use the app, many noticed that there were some gaps in the content collection. When the comments started to come in, the company pulled the announcement…
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HBO Max Acquires Exclusive Streaming Rights to ‘Young Sheldon’
Newly launched HBO Max announced today that it has acquired exclusive US streaming rights to Young Sheldon, through a deal with Warner Bros. The addition of the series will go alongside the streaming platform’s current collection of all seasons of The Big Bang Theory. Young Sheldonis based on the childhood of Sheldon Cooper, one of…
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AT&T Grandfathered Plans with HBO See a $10 Price Hike with HBO Max Launch
Update: AT&T sent this message to subscribers who saw the increase on their bill Thank you for subscribing to AT&T TV NOW and HBO. Unfortunattely, there was a billing error on your HBO subscription, and we want to let you know we are fixing it. Your $5.00 monthly HBP rate was inadvertently changed to $14.99…