Warner Bros. Discovery and Charter Communications have clinched a multi-year distribution partnership that includes Max and Discovery+ tiers for Charter subscribers, a deal they said “further evolves the video ecosystem with more value and flexibility in video bundles, deeper libraries and more choice to better align with customers’ current viewing preferences.”
The deal is in line with other agreements Charter has struck with Disney and Paramount that add streamers to its cable bundle. WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels indicated at a media conference last week that the company would be open to a similar setup.
The news comes as his boss, CEO David Zaslav, is set to speak at a Goldman Sachs confab this afternoon and will finally have good news to discuss. He needs some after WBD took a massive write-down on its linear television assets and fell short of Wall Street financial forecasts in the second
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