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22.09.2023 - 14:55 / variety.com
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Max fans who don’t relish the idea of coughing up $9.99 per month more to access the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer’s upcoming live sports tier might not realize that they’ve been making out like bandits with seemingly “free” sports content on other platforms for years, according to WBD global streaming chief JB Perrette.
“We’ve operated in sports in the direct-to-consumer space for a decade in Europe, through Eurosport, and what we learned there, through a lot of trial and error, is sports is a premium offering, it’s a passionate fanbase, obviously, it’s not something that appeals to everyone, and guess what? Everywhere in the world outside the United States, it’s priced separate,” Warner Bros. Discovery global streaming and games CEO and president Perrette told Variety co-editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton at Variety‘s Entertainment & Technology Summit Thursday.
“The only place in the world where it’s priced and jammed into the entertainment bundle is in the United States. We look at the model in streaming and say, now’s the time to actually reset that model.
Rather than, like we see some of our peers giving it away for free — what seems like giving it away for free, because they’re just giving it for no additional costs in the entertainment price — we think it has to be priced separately.” On Tuesday, WBD announced that beginning Oct. 5, a new “Bleacher Report” add-on package will be available for Max, including access to games from the NBA, Major League Baseball, the NHL and the NCAA “March Madness” tournament.
The offering will also come with TNT’s popular “Inside the NBA” studio program and live international events such as “24 Hours of Le Mans.” Warner Bros. Discovery says
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Film extra Cristina Stanovici has detailed the severe injuries she suffered when she was hit by a speeding motorbike on the Glasgow set of the Batgirl movie.
The tributes have begun to pour in for NCIS veteran David McCallum, who died this morning at 90 in New York.
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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Gordon Ramsay’s high-anxiety restaurant rescue series “Kitchen Nightmares” returns to Fox Monday after 10 years off the air. In that time, a lot has changed — not only in the restaurant industry, but also the broadcast TV food landscape, where Fox dominates with more culinary competitions than the other Big 4 networks. With foodie culture stronger than ever amid the popularity of “The Bear” and the surge of cooking videos splattered across TikTok, Ramsay decided now was the time to expand upon those first seven seasons of kitchen chaos.
Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has spoken for the first time to confirm that he was unharmed after being involved in a car crash outside the club's training ground on Saturday night.
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