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Streaming Combo Of HBO Max And Discovery+ Will “Take A While,” CFO Affirms

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Eventually, HBO Max and Discovery+ will come together as a single streaming offering, but the integration will “take a while,” CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels said at an investor conference today.With the $43 billion merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia in the “ninth inning” ahead of an expected April close, the exec continued, the near-term focus is on providing a bundle of the two discrete services.

He delivered the comments at Deutsche Bank’s 30th annual Media, Internet & Telecom Conference.Down the line, “the main thrust is going to be harmonizing the technology platforms,” Wiedenfels said, “building one very strong combined direct-to-consumer product and platform, and that’s going to take a while.”The consensus in industry and Wall Street circles has been that a single offering makes the most sense as Warner Bros.

Discovery attempts to compete head to head with Disney, Netflix and others.Discovery CEO David Zaslav has frequently about the likelihood of the two services eventually merging and that scenario was a key driver of the merger when it was proposed last May.

Discovery+, which launched in the U.S. in January 2021, accounts for most of the company’s 22 million global streaming subscribers — a respectable tally, but not the Netflix rival the company initially envisioned.During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call in February, Zaslav did not hedge when offering his outlook about a streaming combination. “We see that there’s also a different viewing pattern between what’s going on in HBO Max and with Discovery+,” he said. “A lot of our content is viewed throughout the day.

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