Now Introducing HBO Max Classic

How much would Blu Ray rentals be? 🤔
 

HBO2 will now be called HBO Hits. HBO Signature is now HBO Drama. HBO Zone will henceforth be known as HBO Movies.

Plus, Warner Bros. Discovery is reviving the Cinemax name. MoreMAX is now Cinemax Hits. ActionMAX will now be called Cinemax Action. And 5starMAX is renamed Cinemax Classics.
 
It's been so long since I had premium cable that I actually forgot that the ancillary HBO channels still existed.
 
HBO Signature and Zone used to be my background noise.
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Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery​

The majority of the planned bid for Warner will be made up of cash​




Greetings from Los Angeles and welcome back to In the Room. Last Friday, after I published my latest missive on David Ellison’s presumptive all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, a well-placed Hollywood source called to suggest to me that Netflix was also considering a bid for David Zaslav’s assets. This once-implausible scenario had already gained some traction in the analyst community, and I’ll concede that my imagination started running wild when Ted Sarandos showed up with Zaz at the Crawford–Álvarez fight in Las Vegas the next night.

It seems hard to imagine—maybe Netflix would want the studio and streaming division—but the whispers, themselves, are indicative of this feverish new era of M&A activity, catalyzed in large part by Ellison’s entry into the space. Ellison’s seemingly limitless cash and ambition have accelerated Hollywood’s consolidation process, and his decision to bid for all of WBD now—in an attempt to preempt potential rivals—is forcing nearly everyone to dust off their models. NBCUniversal, which is in the worst position to acquire Zaz’s assets from a regulatory perspective, spent the weekend “running the numbers on WBD,” per a source familiar, though a Comcast source cautioned that such a takeover was implausible, especially as it was spinning off Versant. (Reps for Netflix and Comcast did not comment.)
 

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