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Comcast's new distribution agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery includes US packaging rights for the Max and Discovery+ streaming services. #pressrelease
December 9, 2024
Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (NASDAQ: WBD) today announced long-term agreements that will deliver WBD's extensive portfolio of content to Xfinity and Sky UK and Ireland customers using Comcast's global technology platform across linear television, apps, and streaming services.
Comcast has entered into renewal agreements that further the companies' longstanding distribution relationship with WBD's portfolio of linear cable networks for Xfinity TV customers, including TNT, TBS, CNN, Discovery, Food Network, HGTV, TLC, and Investigation Discovery. In addition, the agreements provide continued carriage of HBO and expand Comcast's rights to package the ad-supported versions of Max and Discovery+ in its streaming bundles. Comcast will also continue to offer WBD content as part of its U.S. NOW TV streaming services.
The companies also announced that Sky UK and Warner Bros. Discovery have broadened their collaboration to bring the very best of Warner Bros. Discovery television and movies to Sky UK and NOW customers through a new long-term partnership in the UK and Ireland. Building on the award-winning WBD content available today on Sky Cinema and the existing series on Sky Atlantic, the agreement will now include a new, non-exclusive ad-supported Max app when WBD launches the service in the UK and Ireland in early 2026.
Read the full press release here.
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