Max Launch: Last News

Logan, Kendall and the rest of the dysfunctional Roy family returned to HBO for Season 3 setting a milestone for HBO. Drawing more than 1.4 million viewers across all platforms, Succession marked the best premiere night performance of any HBO original series since HBO Max launched in May 2020, per HBO.

It’s A Sin, the searing new AIDS crisis series from A Very English Scandal writer Russell T Davies, has premiered in stellar fashion for UK broadcaster Channel 4 ahead of the show’s launch on HBO Max next month.

AT&T CEO John Stankey says the telecom and media conglomerate is using HBO Max and its fast-growing streaming strategy to weather the novel coronavirus pandemic. "Had we not done that and been in this situation, I feel we'd be real flat-footed," Stankey told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference during a virtual appearance on Tuesday as he discussed the recent HBO Max launch.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorIn an interview with CNBC, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar addressed the launch of HBO Max, conceded a “mistake” with HBO branding and comparing Max with Disney and NBCUniversal’s streaming efforts.Today’s interview (watch a large chunk of it above) was Kilar’s first since major layoffs hit WarnerMedia this week. Starting late Friday and continuing Monday, some 600 staffers departed the company, a roster headed by Bob Greenblatt and Kevin Reilly, the two executives shepherding the May 27 debut of HBO Max.Kilar, who started as CEO on May 1, wasn’t asked about the layoffs in general, though he did field one query about the cable networks Reilly oversaw.

John Stankey, the current leader of WarnerMedia and set to be come CEO of telcom giant AT&T on July 1, on Wednesday laid out a road map for how the telecom and media conglomerate will weather the economic storm caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. "The big question incumbent on all of us is what this climb out of this hole looks like and what kind of dynamics occur in the second half of this year," Stankey told the J.P.

By Joe Otterson

AT&T is "pleased" with the early trends at recently launched streaming service HBO Max and continues to work with cinema operators on the "evolving" theatrical release schedule, CFO John Stephens told an investor conference on Wednesday. Stephens spoke at the Credit Suisse 22nd Annual Virtual Communications Conference in a session that was webcast, saying that while the novel coronavirus pandemic means "challenging times in the media business, we believe we got the best assets and the best platform to move forward." He particularly lauded the likes of CNN, Turner and HBO Max.