[Medianext.MX]

Warner Bros. Discovery looks like is trying to stop making its content exclusive to HBO Max/Discovery+. This week, on C21Media's Content London event, Channing Dungey announced that some of the DC animations planned for HBO Max are finding a new home on Prime Video. Additionally, Amazon Studios will co-produce new projects with Warner Bros. Television.

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Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon are teaming up to produce new animated DC proj…
Warner Bros. Television Studios head Channing Dungey says the studio’s “having m…
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[Medianext.MX]

Some news related to the HBO Max-Discovery+ merger: the merged OTT is reportedly being named as simply Max, according to CNBC. The platform (codenamed Beam) will operate on Discovery+'s backend, but with a much more improved UI which will merge both Discovery+ and HBO Max elements. Additionally, WBD has registered a WBMax.com domain for the service, as the Max.com domain is already being used by a nutritional supplement products company, according to Variety.

www.cnbc.com 

Warner Bros Discovery close to picking Max for name of HBO Max replacement
Warner Bros. Discovery plans to merge its HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming servi…
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Name of Merged HBO Max/Discovery Plus Service Could be 'Max' - Variety
Warner Bros. Discovery has set spring 2023 for debut of combined streaming platf…
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[W. Knight]

Montage film for Warner Bros. Pictures, in celebrating their 100th birthday:
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Just in case that doesn't work, here's the UK and Ireland version:
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Ironic to put the current DC actors in, considering one of them has just been dropped a day prior.

[nwtv2003]

Not sure if this is the type of thing to take with a pinch of salt, but MediaBoy on Twitter (not sure how reliable he is), is saying that WBD could possibly close down Quest next year.

[Allanbuzzy]

Not sure if this is the type of thing to take with a pinch of salt, but MediaBoy on Twitter (not sure how reliable he is), is saying that WBD could possibly close down Quest next year.

Technically, he mentions how it's part of either closures or rebrands, and it's possible Quest might rebrand.

With a pinch of salt in perspective, I think ever since DMAX joined Freeview, along with Quest Red (really just a TLC lite), Quest seems to have just been somewhat of a cast aside while Discovery were trying to figure out how to launch Discovery+ in the UK. Love the irony of Discovery launching a new look to all their channels based off of Dplay mere months before they just replaced it with Discovery+.

Can't think to myself Quest closing (or rather, the channel slot being axed), merely just rebranding, with some of it's programming likely moving to DMAX. With how much the new conglomerate has in it's archive, it's possible it could relaunch a Warner TV channel or take a stab at bringing a cable brand from the US to the UK on Freeview. More likely the former, since the last time they did that (TruTV), it failed to break even in viewership. Still, being owned by Discovery, I can see them figuring it out.

[Kunst]

Warner TV is more than possible, since Warner TV has launched recently in Italy.

There's a "documentary" channels overload in the UK, with Quest being too similar to DMAX, this would correct it

[gottago]

Quest is by far and away Discovery's most watched linear channel so I can't imagine they'd just close it, especially when they have other Freeview channels that don't perform anywhere near as well. If anything I'd have thought their subscription linear channels would be far more likely to be at risk as their focus shifted to Discovery+ some time ago.

I guess they could rebrand Quest but I'm not sure why they would. Warner TV in other countries looks to be more of a scripted channel and there's simply no market for scripted series on minor digital channels in a streaming world any more.

[Kojak]

Quest is by far and away Discovery's most watched linear channel so I can't imagine they'd just close it, especially when they have other Freeview channels that don't perform anywhere near as well. If anything I'd have thought their subscription linear channels would be far more likely to be at risk as their focus shifted to Discovery+ some time ago.

I guess they could rebrand Quest but I'm not sure why they would. Warner TV in other countries looks to be more of a scripted channel and there's simply no market for scripted series on minor digital channels in a streaming world any more.

There were rumours last year (which turned out to be unfounded) that Discovery were planning on closing all but one of their pay TV channels. Although it didn't happen then, I do suspect that that is their long-term goal.

[Allanbuzzy]

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Warner Bros Discovery have essentially pulled a large chunk of Looney Tunes and Flintstones content from HBO Max, originally citing a maintenance situation but later revealing to Variety that they "will not, in fact, be coming back to the service."

They appear to still be streaming on their other, less popular and niche streaming service Boomerang, which is primarily WBD's streaming platform for classic and 00s cartoons. What I'm more baffled about is why WBD would remove this content, let alone feeling an obligation to continue streaming them on services audiences likely have never heard of, since LT is part of WB's heritage.

I hardly see HBO Max (or "Max", or "BEAM", or whatever the hell WBD wants to call their streaming service in the next few months) being an opportune streaming service for dedicated WB fans, since it seems they can't please both fans of WB and Discovery. It's like Cadbury and Tayto's mixing toge- oh, that actually happened.

[bkman1990]

What is worse regarding Looney Tunes at this point is that the show has it's own hub on HBO Max which is being watered down into a trickle. If it was showing the newer episodes from the latest series; that move would probably make sense to me. But it is not good news to digest either way for any parent who have kids or for anyone of a certain vintage to watch these cartoons.