{"id":379749,"date":"2025-12-31T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379749\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:30:07","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-canal-strike-hbo-max-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379749\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery &#038; Canal+ Strike HBO Max Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo-max\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo-max\" data-tag=\"hbo-max\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a> will be available in two more territories on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/canal-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_canal-2\" data-tag=\"canal-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canal+<\/a> as the French powerhouse strikes a fresh multi-year, multi-territory agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/warner-bros-discovery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros-discovery\" data-tag=\"warner-bros-discovery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> (WBD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe agreement renews HBO Max in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungrary and Romania on Canal+, but will also see the streamer distributed via Canal+ in Belgium and Austria. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHBO Max has rolled out to major European markets over the past year or so and will soon go live in the UK, where it has previously been unable to launch due to WBD\u2019s long-running deal with Sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCanal+ and WBD said today\u2019s partnership marks a \u201cmajor milestone in the development of their collaboration on an international scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOverall, the agreement covers the distribution of HBO Max, the renewal of several WBD channels and the renewal of the exclusive pay-TV window for Warner Bros. movies, which land on Canal+ six months after their theatrical release in France. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAround 12 WBD channels have been renewed across territories in Africa on MultiChoice Group, the firm that Canal+ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/07\/canal-plus-multichoice-takeover-competition-approval-1236465789\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired earlier this year<\/a>. CNN International and Cartoon Network will air exclusively in South Africa and non-exclusively in other territories. A number of other networks have also been renewed in African markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCanal+ also has distribution deals in place with Netflix and could become an important player if Netflix\u2019s acquisition of WBD goes through, which will give Netflix control over two of the world\u2019s biggest streamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO Max will be available in two more territories on Canal+ as the French powerhouse strikes a fresh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[26021,88,1010,92,10343],"class_list":{"0":"post-379749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-canal","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo-max","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-warner-bros-discovery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}