lowell
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Technically, it didn't actually bode well for MotorTrend Plus (closed in March) and Global Cycling Network Plus (closed in December last year). Both of them had their content transferred over to both Max and Discovery+.I means movies from MGM+ to be shown on Paramount+ and have deal with MGM+ helped Paramount+ to have 1,000 extra movies on their service, addition to 500 movies. The deal expired last year and numbers of movies drop to 500, but with Showtime, they boosted the number to nearly 800.
BET+ is going to shut down eventually but question would be when. Boomerang and Discovery+ are likely to be around longer, otherwise Zaslav would shut those services down by now.
Max is pricer and as for reason, Zaslav want Discovery+ to be offered as alternative if customers aren't willing to pay for Max.
Boomerang is mysterious - abandoned streaming service but still available to anyone to subscribe, so no new contents at all.
Also, Cinemax is still around and it could be merged into Max easily but no, WBD still make Cinemax separately. Many TV providers dropped or excluded Cinemax from bundle for several years now but it didn't change WBD's decision with Cinemax.
Even Bleacher Report became part of Max as an add-on tier.
I do think Discovery+ will slowly wind down but it will probably depend on Max's international rollout over time.
If Max becomes the bigger brand down the road, then they could keep the costs down by just focusing on Max.
Yeah, Boomerang's the very curious question here, because it could technically be its own hub in Max with its library or other existing hubs on there.
The Cinemax channels could continue to run as long as they can but I could see its library of shows end up on Max eventually down the road, probably not under Zaslav, though.