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Executive InterviewsInterview: Leah Hooper Rosa - Seeing the bigger picture
Leah Hooper Rosa, who leads WBD’s streaming business in EMEA, is tasked not only with operations and growth for existing streaming services HBO Max and discovery+, but also planning for the roll out of Max from early 2024. She spoke to Adrian Pennington.
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Warner Bros. Discovery to Launch CNN Max News Service
Warner Bros. Discovery is to incorporate live news programming for the first time into its streaming platform Max with the addition of CNN Max.
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Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA President Priya Dogra to depart
Priya Dogra, Warner Bos. Discovery’s President & Managing Director for EMEA, is to leave the company later this year.
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CNN Chief Chris Licht Departs
CNN chief executive Chris Licht has stepped down after just 13 months in the job.
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Warner Bros Discovery, Liberty Global Eye £1bn All3Media Sale
Warner Bros Discovery and Liberty Global are considering a possible £1 billion sale of All3Media, the UK’s largest independent TV production group.
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ScreenSkills Calls for Film and TV Industry Apprenticeship Reform
ScreenSkills has called for fundamental reform of the apprenticeship levy in the UK and how apprenticeships are applied for the TV and film sector in England, following an assessment of two pilot schemes.
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Warner Bros. Discovery unveils Max streaming service
Warner Bros. Discovery is to launch streaming service Max in the US on May 23, which will combine content from its existing services HBO Max and Discovery+.
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Warner Bros. Discovery looks to reboot Harry Potter as TV series
Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is close to a deal to produce a Harry Potter TV series.
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Warner Bros Discovery plans more Lord Of The Rings movies
Warner Bros Discovery is planning new films based on JRR Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings books and The Hobbit.
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IBC2023 Accelerators: Kickstarter Day highlights the value of collaboration
The IBC2023 Accelerators programme has got underway in earnest, following the annual ‘Kickstart’ day on Feb 8th. The event saw a select group of industry leaders come together to hear the ‘longlist’ of pitches for inclusion in the 2023 Accelerator programme, prefaced with introductory presentations and culminating in the Awards ...
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Warner Bros. Discovery to keep Discovery+ as standalone service
Warner Bros. Discovery is planning to maintain Discovery+ as standalone streaming service, in addition to merging HBO Max and Discovery+ into a combined service.
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HBO Max unveils first price rise
Warner Bros Discovery is raising the monthly cost of HBO Max for the first time since the streaming service was launched in 2020.
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EBU and Warner Bros Discovery win European rights to 2026-2032 Olympic Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded all media rights in Europe for the four Olympic Games in the 2026-2032 period to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Growth in content investment set to dip in 2023
Global content expenditure will increase by just 2% year-on-year in 2023—the lowest growth in over a decade, excluding the COVID-driven slump of 2020, according to Ampere Analysis.
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Sports industry gathers to go OTT in Madrid
While rights-holding broadcasters are increasingly determined to ensure their linear sports output is available to their viewers via online channels, the sports industry is looking to OTT as a means of democratising coverage to engage fans and generate new revenue streams. The SportsPro OTT Summit, held in Madrid at the ...
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Warner Bros Discovery predicts another $1bn in content write-offs
Warner Bros Discovery says that its costs due to content write-offs could now reach up to $3.5bn, some $1bn more than previously anticipated.
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UCI and WWE bring the Metaverse and Web3 video into mainstream sports
Next week, Warner Bros. Discovery Sports promises to harness Web3 technology to preview what it calls a “metaverse experience” around the London leg of the UCI Track Champions League.
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Warner Bros. Discovery claims record figures for HBO series House of the Dragon
Warner Bros. Discovery says that Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon has become the most viewed title ever on its HBO streaming services in Europe, surpassing season eight of its hit series Game of Thrones.
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Paramount Global explores folding Showtime into Paramount+
Paramount Global is reportedly considering discontinuing its Showtime streaming service and shifting its content into Paramount+ in a bid to streamline the company’s offerings amid a crowd of competitors, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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ProSiebenSat.1 acquires 100% of AVOD streaming platform Joyn
Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 Group is to acquire the remaining 50% of the shares in local streaming platform Joyn, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
