John Stankey, chief executive of WarnerMedia parent AT&T, compared current production challenges to a “battle” as the studio struggles to wade through shutdowns.“We are still fighting through getting the pipeline, dropping the content at the right rate and pace that we want to,” he said on a conference call to discuss fourth quarter earnings. “We are kind of going hand to mouth on these right now… It’s just that tough and that much of a battle, literally show by show, to get this stuff done and get it into the funnel.”Uncertainty makes it hard to pinpoint a precise launch date for new AVOD and international iterations of HBO Max although he said the AVOD service is on track to launch in the second quarter, along with a Latin America launch
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