{"id":2087,"date":"2020-01-29T18:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/warnermedia-just-lost-1-2b-while-it-waits-for-hbo-max-to-launch\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:13:17","slug":"warnermedia-just-lost-1-2b-while-it-waits-for-hbo-max-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/warnermedia-just-lost-1-2b-while-it-waits-for-hbo-max-to-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"WarnerMedia Just Lost $1.2B While It Waits For HBO Max To Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T announced its earnings for the fourth quarter this morning, which includes WarnerMedia, and it took a big hit in revenue in the quarter, due to HBO Max.<br \/>\nWarnerMedia took a hit of $1.2 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter. And the reason for it is the fact that it is not looking to re-license its content. As it wants to save its own content for HBO Max when that launches in May. AT&amp;T feels that a short-term loss is okay, as it figures that HBO Max will net long-term growth.<br \/>\nWarnerMedia wants to keep titles like Friends for HBO Max<br \/>\nThe company is looking to offer some big titles at launch, like Friends and The Big Bang Theory. As a way to get users to sign up right away. And with the growth in different streaming services in recent years, it&#8217;s needed.<br \/>\nSo by not licensing some of these shows for other streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, it is losing out on quite a bit of cash. But once HBO Max launches, that should be put into the rear-view.<br \/>\nAT&amp;T is also planning to invest over $4 billion into HBO Max over the next few years. This would be for new content. While WarnerMedia already has a ton of content, it is going to need new content to continue to grow and keep its subscribers.<br \/>\nThis WarnerMedia revenue loss is not what investors wants to hear<br \/>\nFor investors, seeing WarnerMedia post a revenue loss of $1.2 billion is definitely not what you want to see, and we&#8217;re seeing that today with AT&amp;T&#8217;s stock being down almost three-percent.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not down a lot, and that&#8217;s likely because investors see this quarter as a mixed bag for AT&amp;T. As it did do well with in other areas, but that big loss for WarnerMedia is hurting it.<br \/>\nHBO Max should right the ship once it launches in May. It&#8217;s going to cost subscribers $15 per month, which is the same price as HBO is now. But there&#8217;s going to be a lot more content available. A lot of WarnerMedia&#8217;s content is actually not available on HBO right now. That&#8217;s going to change with HBO Max.<br \/>\nRight now, HBO does a lot of licensing for movies, but that will likely change with HBO Max, since WarnerMedia also has a lot of movies under its belt. Including all of the DC movies.<br \/>\nThe post WarnerMedia Just Lost $1.2B While It Waits For HBO Max To Launch appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HBO-Max-01-600x372-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T announced its earnings for the fourth quarter this morning, which includes WarnerMedia, and it took a big hit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2088,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}