What they should have done I'd launched something like that in 2020 without HBO included and kept all HBO in a separate app (like it was already. ) Then perhaps later merge it like Paramount/Showtime did. People don't get Paramount and Showtime ever confused, so this would have helped.
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
HBO Max name change...strange to anyone else?
- Thread starter tall_guy1
- Start date
I dunno'. I have 5 paid subscriptions, Amazon, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+ and Hulu. There are so many other services that I have essentially tuned them all out: I have reached or exceeded my budget for video services and all the other ones, mostly with made-up four letter neologisms, produce more confusion than potential advantages.
Would have helped what?
Max did $677 million in profit in 2024. Paramount+ lost $497 million.
And do you even begin to understand what I've quoted more than once now from Warners itself----that the reason HBO is being put back in the branding is that, in large part, HBO is what people have been going to Max for?
If HBO had stayed in a separate app, Max would have had to go without The Last of Us, Hacks, The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones, The Pitt, The Penguin, Curb Your Enthusiasm, True Detective and the entire run of Succession. It would have been a very minor player in streaming.
Well, guess so. But I was just thinking about what they could have done to prevent all these name changes so-as to not confuse people. They wouldn't stay separated permanently (like Paramount and Showtime weren't. ) But I guess HBO is a much bigger draw than Showtime, so maybe that was right all along.
They could have not changed it in the first place.
And this is why I went back to 2005 and ordered Directv last week
I guess I’m lost. If it took WBD a month to kill CNN +, why is Discovery + still even around as we type?
It makes sense now. They took a lot of Discovery content off Max, and now that's where it is.
I’m not sure if there are good watering holes near the WBD offices, because they’re going to need it. They know losing the NBA is going to crush max.
They still have NHL, MLB, French Open, March Madness, NASCAR.
I think maybe that's why they're downsizing too. Having sports maybe made them consider catering to a wider audience, but if they don't have some of it, they can play to their most loyal viewers.
😂😂. You left out the one or two college football playoff games that ESPN or ABC doesn’t want because they have nfl or the nba
I wonder just how valuable this new NBA deal will be to the networks. Its way to spread out to help NBC and ESPN.
if the rumors of them spinning off the cable channels are true, then don't be surprised if that $38 Billion Dollar debt is passed on to the new spinoff company and saves the main company from going bankrupt.
Anyone else find it interesting that Zaslav is at each game and most time seen with Adam Silver on camera?
Also, Zaslav wanted to lean heavy into his reality crap, and then when that didn’t find purchase with viewers in favor of scripted content on the streaming service, now he’s having them oscillate the name back to HBO Max.
- Status