What's happening to Paramount+, HBO Max subscriptions after Paramount-WBD merger
Skydance CEO David Ellison has confirmed plans to merge the HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services following the completion of an $81 billion merger. While the platforms will operate separately in the short term, the company intends to bundle them and eventually create a single, unified streaming giant to compete with Netflix and Amazon.
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This consolidation represents a major shift in the media landscape, potentially changing subscription costs and content availability for millions of consumers.
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Make New York Post a Preferred Source Skydance CEO David Ellison doubled down on his plans to combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single streaming service – sparking questions about how much the mega-streamer could cost fans.
Ellison’s $81 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed Tuesday, forming a new media behemoth called Skydance, after months of antitrust roadblocks.
In the “long term,” the company plans to “bring [HBO Max] and [Paramount+] together” as one streaming service,” the exec told reporters Tuesday on his first day running the new Hollywood giant .
“It’ll take a period of time to do that,” he added. “So I think in the immediate, you will see them operated separately,” with “bundling” options available “in the relatively short term.”
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