Tag: Warner Bros. Discovery
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Warner Bros. Discovery is Shutting Down Another Streaming Service, GCN+, and Merging It Into Discovery+
For fans of cycling, today brings some bad news. Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it will shut down GCN+ next month. The streaming service offered subscribers a massive amount of exclusive live cycling events. In different parts of the world, the service will merge into Discovery+. But that won’t happen in the U.S. GCN+ first…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Kills Completed Film Coyote vs. Acme, Takes $30 Million Write-Off Instead
Warner Bros. Discovery is shelving Coyote vs. Acme, saying the live-action animation hybrid film is more valuable as a $30 million write-down than a theatrical or streaming release. The film has seen several disappointments along its production journey. It was slated for release several times before Warner Bros. Discovery gave it the final shove off…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Lost 700,000 Max & Discovery+ Customers In The 3rd Quarter of 2023 But There is Good News
Today, Warner Bros. Discovery reported that it lost 700,000 MAX and Discovery+ during the 3rd quarter of 2023. Yet the good news was that Warner Bros. Discovery’s stream services earned $111 million with adjusted EBITDA. Over all, it is hoped that Max will soon break even or become profitable soon. This all comes as MAX…
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The Cost of Cable TV Could Be Going Up Because Of Streaming Services Thanks to Spectrum, Paramount, and Disney
When Disney and Charter struck a new agreement to bring Disney+ to Spectrum cable customers, it set a new precedent for how traditional pay-TV and streaming services could be bundled together. But it could also open the door to higher costs for cable TV customers. This is clearly a new structure that Charter wants to…
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Sesame Street is Getting a Soft Reboot For its 56th Season
Changes are coming to Sesame Street ahead of the series’ 56th season. The long-running children’s show returns in 2025 with longer, narrative-driven segments and an animated companion series, Tales From 123. Sesame Street will move away from its “magazine” format of showing short segments to expand the show to two eleven-minute stories, with Tales From…
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Warner Bros Discovery Reportedly Looking to Add College Football to the Mix
The college football postseason is expanding from four teams to twelve starting next season, which means more games. While ESPN has exclusive playoff rights through the 2025/2026 season, the league anticipates splitting the rights throughout multiple partners when penning its next deal. Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly “the one to watch” as contract negotiations loom…
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Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Other Streamers Join Forces in Opposition to Government Regulation
The streaming service titans have banded together to launch the Streaming Innovation Alliance, or SIA, the industry’s first unified coalition. The trade group’s board includes big names like Netflix, Paramount’s Paramount+ and Pluto TV, Warner Bros. Discover’s Max, Comcast’s Peacock and Disney, which has Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, according to Axios. TelevisaUnivision, Univision’s ViX, the…
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Max Will Stream Live NBA, MLB, NHL Games For Free Through February With “Bleacher Report” Sports Add-On
Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday said that Max will stream live sports on its service through the Bleacher Report Sports Add-On tier. The Bleacher Report tier will launch on October 5, and will be available for free to all customers through February 29. Afterwards, the add-on will cost $9.99 a month, and is available on…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Will Shut Down or Sell AT&T SportsNet RSNs Here is What is Happening To Each Channel
Last month, Warner Bros. Discovery said it would shut down all its AT&T SportsNet’s regional sports networks by the end of the year, but it seems like it could happen early. The fate of the three RSNs (with Warner Bros. Discovery a minority stakeholder in a fourth) has been in the air with shifting ownership…
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Everything We Know About Warner Bros. Discovery’s New Free Streaming Service Called ‘WBTV’ & Why It is Taking So Long
Earlier this year, we learned that Warner Bros. Discovery has been planning a free streaming service. Since that announcement, Warner Bros. Discovery has gone dark on the service, focusing more on news about Max. So what should we expect from it? What will it offer? What is taking so long for the service to launch?…