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HBO max removes select content it owns to prepare for merger.

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HBO Max Is Suddenly Removing TV Shows

Fans are becoming alarmed by the amount of content leaving the HBO Max catalog in the last week or [...]
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It looks like some of the content (which I got from reddit too) is: the last og, snowpiercer, Chad, the misery index, wrecked, go big show (all TBS, tnt so far), a few one season HBO shows, final space, fairytale something or other from adult swim and Dreamland from adult swim. There might be some others. Weird that most of that they own. They might sell them somewhere else. The last og could fit nicely on peacock maybe.
 
I’m just worried about classic Sesame Street. A lot of people are assuming that will be gone when the merger happens.
 
TVCOOL said:
Does it mean AEW will join the app?
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that's a thing that has to made between AEW & WBD, right now all AEW PPVs and the ROH PPVs from this year would be on Bleacher Report and all AEW TV isn't archived on a streaming platform like this, just past episode from a certain point is on the TBS & TNT apps.
 
TVCOOL said:
Does it mean AEW will join the app?
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Unfortunately I see AEW on the chopping block, I don’t see AEW fitting into Warner Discovery’s vision of having more channels with garbage reality TV. Hopefully another network picks up the rights to air AEW. HBO Max and Discovery+ app will also merge into one app next year.
 
Aquarius said:
Unfortunately I see AEW on the chopping block, I don’t see AEW fitting into Warner Discovery’s vision of having more channels with garbage reality TV. Hopefully another network picks up the rights to air AEW. HBO Max and Discovery+ app will also merge into one app next year.
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AEW is in line with the type of programming they look to retain, it'll just come down to cost vs reward. If AEW charges less than it makes by a substantial enough amount, it'll stay. If not, it'll go to another network.

Zaslav isn't dumb, but it'll have to make more financial sense than likely what passed for such at AT&T. That said, this is different than WCW because WBD doesn't OWN AEW and doesn't have to deal with the contracts for talent, and all the other liabilities that come with running wrestling. This was at the core of the reasons why WCW was cancelled. The other reason was that the AOL/Time Warner folks didn't want "trash" on the networks they owned. Since Discovery specializes in airing trash, this part is not a concern either. So it'll simply come down to "can AEW make more money than other programming in that spot" which will come down to what AEW charges for rights.
 
Aquarius said:
Unfortunately I see AEW on the chopping block, I don’t see AEW fitting into Warner Discovery’s vision of having more channels with garbage reality TV. Hopefully another network picks up the rights to air AEW. HBO Max and Discovery+ app will also merge into one app next year.
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if it was to happen, Paramount Global would be the main one to buy it in traditional TV sense but i could see Amazon or Apple getting it over that since AEW would love to be ahead of the TV revolution instead of behind, NBCUniversal, Fox and Disney would be out due to their WWE ties (WWE has a current TV deal with NBCUniversal & Fox for Raw, NXT & SmackDown, while Disney co-owns A&E which has a deal to produce some WWE shows for A&E and there's the fact Disney wants some sort of WWE coverage on ESPN too, in fact, ESPN aired old WWE WrestleMania PPVs during the early parts of the pandemic when sports shut down and ESPN needed filler content.).

but it won't cause WBD loves AEW and in fact, AEW is gonna be sponsored by the Game of Thrones prequel series, and recently they did a tie-in to Shark Week on AEW with the second week of the "Fyter Fest" special episodes of AEW TV where the ring, barricade covers and the LED ribbon video boards plugged Shark Week and they had a main event Barbed Wire Death Match dubbed "Barbed Wire Everywhere" match between Chris Jericho and Eddie Kingston where there is barbed wire wrapped around the ring (but normally in a barbed wire death match, the ropes are replaced with barbed wire, but AEW opted to keep the ropes instead but wrapped all over the ropes) and the match had a shark cage to keep Chris Jericho's stable the Jericho Appreciation Society from interfering (spoiler alert, the heel stable still interfered cause a member of the group's now wife had a key and a woman who was her friend be conflicted with her feeling side with her friend and attack another woman who was a ally of Kingston who had the remote to the cage to turn from face to heel).
 
My head is spinning. Only in the mind of an obsessed fanboy would exist a world in which high-powered television executives track every plotline of a second-tier wrestling organization as if the very future of their businesses depends on who gets AEW and who doesn't. This isn't 1985. This isn't 1998. Wrestling is back to being niche now, not mainstream. The advertising tie-ins mentioned are worth minuscule fractions of the money that tie-ins with mainstream sports and entertainment properties are.
 
Well on one hand AEW is producing their own content, so it’s not like WBD has to put any money into it. Their goal is to save money by producing cheap reality shows, so that might be a positive. Wrestling kind of fits into the whole reality TV atmosphere, even if it is scripted.
 
Streaming services are looking at Pro Wrestling to fill content like OTA TV in the 1950s and Cable TV in its early days.
 
mnradiofan said:
AEW is in line with the type of programming they look to retain, it'll just come down to cost vs reward. If AEW charges less than it makes by a substantial enough amount, it'll stay. If not, it'll go to another network.

Zaslav isn't dumb, but it'll have to make more financial sense than likely what passed for such at AT&T. That said, this is different than WCW because WBD doesn't OWN AEW and doesn't have to deal with the contracts for talent, and all the other liabilities that come with running wrestling. This was at the core of the reasons why WCW was cancelled. The other reason was that the AOL/Time Warner folks didn't want "trash" on the networks they owned. Since Discovery specializes in airing trash, this part is not a concern either. So it'll simply come down to "can AEW make more money than other programming in that spot" which will come down to what AEW charges for rights.
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WCW survived because Ted Turner understood it's value, Jamie Kellner didn't
 
CTListener said:
My head is spinning. Only in the mind of an obsessed fanboy would exist a world in which high-powered television executives track every plotline of a second-tier wrestling organization as if the very future of their businesses depends on who gets AEW and who doesn't. This isn't 1985. This isn't 1998. Wrestling is back to being niche now, not mainstream. The advertising tie-ins mentioned are worth minuscule fractions of the money that tie-ins with mainstream sports and entertainment properties are.
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pro wrestling fans have be paranoid about it's future since the downfall of both WCW & ECW, and let's be honest, we pro wrestling fans hated the idea of a WWE monopoly under Vince and now with AEW being competition and Vince gone, wrestling fans paranoia can go down now as this might be the start of possibly the next boom period.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
pro wrestling fans have be paranoid about it's future since the downfall of both WCW & ECW, and let's be honest, we pro wrestling fans hated the idea of a WWE monopoly under Vince and now with AEW being competition and Vince gone, wrestling fans paranoia can go down now as this might be the start of possibly the next boom period.
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There does seem to be a lot of hope being pinned on Triple H. I don't think it's possible to turn the clock back to the territorial days, or even to the Hulkamania years, but more in-ring action, less backstage skits and slow-paced dialogue during promos might make a return to the early Attitude Era possible. But who among the current crop has the "it" factor to be the next Rock or Stone Cold and bring the product into mass popularity again? Long hair, chiseled physiques and, for many, Pacific Island ancestry seem to be the things needed to get any kind of push.
 
CTListener said:
My head is spinning. Only in the mind of an obsessed fanboy would exist a world in which high-powered television executives track every plotline of a second-tier wrestling organization as if the very future of their businesses depends on who gets AEW and who doesn't. This isn't 1985. This isn't 1998. Wrestling is back to being niche now, not mainstream. The advertising tie-ins mentioned are worth minuscule fractions of the money that tie-ins with mainstream sports and entertainment properties are.
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But it airs on a broadcast network every Friday night and draws good numbers
 

Changes coming to CNN

On Friday morning, CNN CEO Chris Licht addressed the decision to cancel the Sunday show Reliable Sources, and told staff on the news channel’s 9 a.m. editorial call that there will be more changes to come.

“I want to acknowledge that this is a time of significant change, and I know that many of you are unsettled,” Licht said, according to multiple people on the call. “There will be more changes and you might not understand it or like it.”

CNN’s decision to cancel Brian Stelter’s show brought renewed anxiety to the halls of 30 Hudson Yards, according to multiple CNN staffers.
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Also 200 Episodes of Sesame Street Removed from HBO Max app

There’s a dark cloud hanging over Sesame Street‘s famously sunny days.

As part of HBO Max’s ongoing, wide-ranging and apparently merciless purging of many library tiles — all as part of WarnerBros. Discovery’s ambitious plan to winnow down $3 billion (with a B) in debt — nearly 200 Sesame Street episodes have been pulled from the streamer.

By removing series and movies from its library, HBO Max no longer has to pay licensing fees for them. That is a bottom line-boosting measure for the streamer even when said checks are being made out to sister company Warner Bros. Television, as was the case with many of this week’s previous subtractions.
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