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HBO MAX, AT&T's big bet on streaming, brought in more than four million subscribers in the month following its May 27 launch, the company announced on Thursday.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/media/hbo-max-subscribers/index.html
We'll sure, TODAY there is a need for it - I'm talking about what direction they are headed in the future with their services, which is what I thought your question was about...
Go wasn't something you subscribed to. It was an app you used if you got HBO through your cable and wanted to watch it on a mobile device. Now subscribers basically just became Max subscribers. There's really no need for Now at this point.
You have to remember too there are so many different ways people hear about news nowadays - Facebook posts... Tweets... where there is essentially only "headline" and no article to read.
I saw one Tweet that said something like "HBO is pulling GWTW I bet Blazing Saddles will be next." If that's...
I saw numerous press accounts of it yesterday where they said HBO Max was pulling it but made no mention of the fact that the move was temporary. It's hard to blame someone who might have only seen one of those half reports. I think that's might have been the driver of all of this.
It's definitely pretty telling that it's selling as well as it is compared to the competition. Surely the movies it's beating, like Star Wars, have plenty of sales volume.
Once again, everybody here knows the reason this is happening.
The "point," as you put it, is just to point out that a new contract not having been worked out for these titles, within the same corporation I might add, so that it's most advertised characters could last longer than 1 billing...
Again, I'm aware of all the reasons this is happening. We've been talking about it since True Lies left. I'm just saying that HBO/WM should not have put themselves in a position where marquee titles, ones highlighted in all of their advertising, are announced as to be leaving 2 weeks after...