{"id":629447,"date":"2026-10-13T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629447\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:56:22","slug":"discovery-raises-prices-one-week-after-paramount-warner-bros-merger-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629447\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery+ Raises Prices One Week After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">It&#8217;s only been a week, but Discovery+ is already raising its prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/tv\/skydance-tv-paramount-warner-bros-discovery-merger-analysis\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:under%20the%20Skydance%20umbrella;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;under the Skydance umbrella&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">under the Skydance umbrella<\/a> following the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The streaming service will now cost $1 more for the ad-supported plan ($6.99), and an extra $2 per month for ad-free ($11.99). The changes go into effect on Tuesday for new customers, while subscribers will have a 30-day window before their next pay period. However, it&#8217;s also worth noting this pricing update was most likely in the process of being implemented prior to Skydance taking over, merely due to logistics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Available programming on Discovery+ includes the &#8220;90 Day Fianc\u00e9&#8221; franchise, &#8220;Sister Wives,&#8221; &#8220;Ghost Adventures,&#8221; &#8220;Expedition Unknown&#8221; and &#8220;Deadliest Catch,&#8221; in addition to other entries from HGTV, the Food Network, TLC, ID, Animal Planet and the Magnolia Network.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Notably, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/journalism\/skydance-competition-cnn-cbs-news\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Skydance%20Corporation%20is%20also%20home;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Skydance Corporation is also home&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Skydance Corporation is also home<\/a> to Paramount+, HBO Max and Pluto TV. The Direct-to-Consumer division is led by HBO&#8217;s Casey Bloys as chief content officer and WBD&#8217;s JB Perrette as chief business officer.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;Consumers can expect greater innovation from a company built with technology at its core, including significant improvements to its direct-to-consumer streaming products, which will unify into a single service over time,&#8221; Skydance further noted last week while announcing the closing of its merger.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Discovery+ launched in March 2020.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/streaming\/discovery-plus-price-increase-under-skydance-merger\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Discovery%2B%20Raises%20Prices%20One%20Week%20After%20Paramount-Warner%20Bros.%20Merger%20Closes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Discovery+ Raises Prices One Week After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Closes&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Discovery+ Raises Prices One Week After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Closes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;TheWrap&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">TheWrap<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s only been a week, but Discovery+ is already raising its prices under the Skydance umbrella following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2169,138,553,219,246,5932,329,37332,5933,5483,16400,7454,111,139,69,244,8499,13081,294,781,5934,5935,643,37333,7496,145,37334],"class_list":["post-629447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-401k","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-information","tag-investing","tag-investment-tools","tag-investor","tag-market-news","tag-mortgage","tag-mutual-funds","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-quote","tag-real-estate","tag-retirement","tag-stock","tag-stock-research","tag-stock-valuation","tag-stocks","tag-suze-orman","tag-tax","tag-technology","tag-track-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}