HBO Max’s video playback was disrupted for a few hours Tuesday, but the problems have been resolved. During the outages, the service and app itself were functioning, but users reported they couldn’t watch videos and were getting repeated error messages to “please try again.” The disruptions came with little more than a day before HBO …
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HBO Max‘s cheaper, ad-supported tier will cost $10 a month and launch in the first week of June, owner WarnerMedia said Wednesday. A $5 discount to HBO Max‘s ad-free subsciption, it’ll arrive the week after — possibly just days after — HBO Max premieres its highly anticipated Friends reunion special on May 27. The new tier, called simply HBO Max with Ads, is …
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Just three years after it fought the Justice Department to complete its $85 billion purchase of media giant Time Warner, AT&T is selling off its entertainment business to drill back down on the basics and specifically on 5G. AT&T unveiled the change in strategy on Monday after it announced a $43 billion deal to sell its WarnerMedia assets to Discovery. The …
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HBO Max‘s plot to take on Netflix and Disney Plus just got a lot twistier. In a seismic jolt to the media industry, parent company AT&T said Monday that it plans to spin off its WarnerMedia division — home to its entire media business, including streaming service HBO Max — and merge it with Discovery, known for reality shows and other unscripted programming on its …
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If you have a subscription to YouTube TV and a Roku streaming box, you’ve probably received emails detailing a dispute between the two companies. Roku says Google wants more user data, search-result manipulation and hardware requirements. YouTube calls the claims “baseless and false” and says it wants to “renew the YouTube TV deal under the existing reasonable terms.” For now, the main consequence of …
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WarnerMedia’s ad-supported HBO Max is coming in June, and a new report suggests that it will have a slight discount compared with the existing ad-free offering. According to CNBC, those who don’t mind seeing advertising with their HBO Max media will be able to get the ad-supported offering for $10 per month. The regular ad-free version of HBO Max runs …
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AT&T continued its momentum from a strong fourth quarter, announcing on Thursday that it beat first-quarter earnings expectations thanks to strong performance from its wireless, fiber and WarnerMedia businesses. The company reported revenues of $43.9 billion for the quarter, beating the $42.69 billion expected by analysts polled by Yahoo Finance. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.86, ahead of the …
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HBO Max will launch a cheaper, ad-supported tier of its US streaming service in June, adding commercials to its programming in exchange for a discount to its now $15-a-month subscription price. Parent company AT&T didn’t specify the price for the new HBO Max membership level, though it may clarify how much it costs during an investor presentation later Friday. But the ad-supported version of …
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AT&T’s 5G network will start getting a boost later this year with the addition of some of its new wireless spectrum. At its analyst event on Friday, the carrier detailed its $27.4 billion purchase of additional midband airwaves in the recent record-breaking FCC auction. The company says it will begin deploying the first half of its spectrum purchase at the …
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AT&T has reached a deal to sell off a minority stake in its satellite TV arm for $7.8 billion, the carrier said Thursday. AT&T and private equity firm TPG will form a new company, called New DirectTV, in which AT&T will own a 70% stake and TPG 30%. The company will include the DirecTV, AT&T TV Now and U-Verse video services. …
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