[W. Knight]

To add to that, Max is launching in Australia in 2025, with a rough timeline of European launch before the Paris Olympics and then landing in Asia before the end of 2024. This might be a blow to Foxtel and Binge, as HBO has been in their package deal since 2016.
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“We’ll do Europe before the Olympics, which we have to get done because we have the Olympics coming in Paris next summer. And then we will get to Asia,” Mr [Jean-Briac] Perrette told media executives in Bali at a summit last week.

“Asia continues to be critically important, but we have to do it in that sequence. And we will get to Asia before the end of next year with our existing markets and then roll out to new markets again, starting in 2025.”

Mr Perrette told the Media Partners Asia APOS event that Warner Bros Discovery would “probably look to launch in a market like Australia after that”. “Australia’s a critically important market for us, where again we think our content is very strong for that market.” he added.