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WarnerMedia
Warner Media, LLC (Trade name, doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational corporation, multinational mass media and show business, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate owned by AT&T. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City. It was established as Time Warner in 1990 and was known by that name for most of its history, following a merger between Time Inc. and Warner Communications. The company had film, television and cable television, cable operations. Its assets included WarnerMedia Studios & Networks (which consisted of the entertainment assets of Turner Broadcasting System, Turner Broadcasting, HBO, and Cinemax as well as Warner Bros., which itself consisted of the film, animation, television studios, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, the company's home entertainment division and Studio Distribution Services, its joint venture with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, DC Comics, New Line Cinema, and, together with CBS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HBO Max
Max (known in other countries as, and soon to be reverted globally to HBO Max) is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. It is a proprietary unit of Warner Bros. Discovery Streaming on behalf of Home Box Office, Inc., which is itself a division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The platform offers content from the libraries of Warner Bros., Discovery, HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Animal Planet, TBS, TNT, Eurosport, and their related brands. Max first launched (as HBO Max) in the United States on May 27, 2020. Max is the fourth most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 117 million paid memberships. The service also carries first-run original programming under the " Max Originals" banner, programming from the HBO pay television service, and content acquired via either third-party library deals (such as those with film studios for pay television rights) or co-production agreements (including, among others, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it merged with Time Warner (later WarnerMedia) on October 10, 1996. As of April 2022, all of its assets are now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The headquarters of Turner's properties were largely located at the CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta, and the Turner Broadcasting campus off Techwood Drive in Midtown Atlanta, which also houses Techwood Studios. Some of their operations were housed within WBD's corporate and global headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan's West Side district, and at 230 Park Avenue South in Midtown Manhattan, both in New York City, respectively. Turner was known for several pioneering innovations in U.S. multichannel television, including its satellite uplink of local Atlanta independent station WTCG channel 17 as TBS—one of the first national " superstations", and its establishment of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery, Inc
Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1982, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and TLC. In 2018, the company acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, adding networks such as Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel to its portfolio. Since the purchase, Discovery described itself as serving members of "passionate" audiences, and also placed a focus on streaming services built around its properties. Discovery owned or had interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels, most prominently the rightsholder of the Olympic Games throughout most of Europe), GolfTV (an international golf-focused streaming service, which is the international digital rightsho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American film studio, filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on April 4, 1923, by four brothers, Harry Warner, Harry, Albert Warner, Albert, Sam Warner, Sam and Jack L. Warner, Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games. It is one of the "Major film studios, Big Five" major American film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division, the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment and the Warner Bros. Television Group. Bugs Bunny, a character created for the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Kilar
Jason Alan Kilar (; born April 26, 1971) is an American businessman. He is a member of the boards of Wealthfront and Roblox, and was CEO of WarnerMedia, from May 2020 to April 2022. He was previously a five-year board member of Opendoor and was an Amazon executive. Kilar is a co-founder of Vessel, and of Hulu. Early life and education Kilar was born on April 26, 1971, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Boca Raton, Florida, during his junior year and ended up graduating from Spanish River Community High School in 1989. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He graduated in 1993 and continued his education at Harvard Business School, earning an MBA in 1997. Career Kilar was an executive at Amazon from 1997 to 2006, including as the senior vice president of its worldwide application software division. He helped found the streaming company Hulu in 2007 and became its CEO. On January 4, 2013, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TBS (American TV Channel)
TBS (an initialism of Turner Broadcasting System) is an American basic cable Television broadcasting, television network owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Global Linear Networks, Global Linear Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery. It carries a Generalist channel, variety of programming, with a focus on television comedy, comedy, along with some sports events through TNT Sports (United States), TNT Sports, including MLB on TBS, Major League Baseball, Stanley Cup playoffs, and the NCAA March Madness (TV program), NCAA men's basketball tournament. As of September 2018, TBS was received by approximately 90.391 million households that subscribe to a pay television service throughout the United States. By June 2023, this number has dropped to 71.3 million households. TBS' sister networks are TNT (American TV network), TNT, TruTV, and Turner Classic Movies, with the first two channels also providing sports coverage through TNT Sports. TBS was originally established on December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoonito
Cartoonito is a brand name used by Warner Bros. Discovery for a collection of television networks and Block programming, programming blocks aimed at preschool children. The name combines the "cartoon" with the Spanish language, Spanish suffix "ito", meaning "small". , Cartoonito exists as a TV channel across Europe (including the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it originated), the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and South Korea; as a block on Cartoon Network in the UK, the Middle East, Turkey, the Cartoonito (American programming block), United States, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and South Asia; and as a block on Boomerang (TV network), Boomerang in Oceania. Background Precursors (1996–2006) Educational blocks (1996–2005) In 1996, Cartoon Network decided to create a Sunday morning block of preschool programs, comprising ''Big Bag'', a live-action/puppet television program produced by the Sesame Workshop, Children's Television Workshop (known f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (stylized as [adult swim] and [as]) is an American adult-oriented television programming block that airs on Cartoon Network which broadcasts during the evening, prime time, and Late-night television, late-night Dayparting, dayparts. The channel features stylistically varied Adult animation, animated and live-action series targeting an adult audience. The block's content includes List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim, original programming, which are particularly comedies and action series, broadcast syndication, syndicated series, and short films with generally minimal or no editing for content. Adult Swim is programmed by Williams Street, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Studios that also produces much of the block's original programming. Launched on September 2, 2001, Adult Swim has frequently aired animated sitcoms, adult animation features, parody, satire, Mockumentary, mockumentaries, sketch comedy, and Television pilot, pilots, with many of its programs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Sarnoff
Ann Marie Sarnoff (née Misiaszek; born c. 1961) is an American television executive. She became the chairwoman and chief executive officer, CEO of Warner Bros. in the summer of 2019. Sarnoff was the first woman to hold the position at the company. Early life and education Sarnoff was born in Massachusetts. She is a 1979 graduate of Minnechaug Regional High School in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. In 1983, Sarnoff received a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from McDonough School of Business from Georgetown University. In 1987, Sarnoff received a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. Career Sarnoff started out as a strategic consultant at CRA International, Marakon Associates. From 1993 to 2003, Sarnoff worked at Viacom (2005–present), Viacom. Her first job at Viacom was in the corporate development department. After leaving corporate, Sarnoff was the head of Nickelodeon consumer products and business development during Geraldine Laybourne's l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinemax
Cinemax is an American pay television network owned by Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched on August 1, 1980, as a "maxi-pay" service to complement the offerings of its sister premium network, HBO (Home Box Office), Cinemax initially focused on recent and classic films. Today, its programming primarily includes recent and classic theatrically released films, original series, documentaries, and special behind-the-scenes features. It operates eight 24-hour linear channels and offers a traditional subscription video-on-demand service called Cinemax On Demand. Cinemax previously provided a TV Everywhere streaming platform, Cinemax Go, which is no longer available. However, its linear channels are accessible through multichannel video programming distributors such as Apple TV, Amazon Video, and Roku. History Home Box Office, Inc., owned by Time Inc.'s Time Life, Time-Life Broadcasting unit, launched a movie-centered pay service called Take 2 on A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 Hudson Yards
30 Hudson Yards (also known during construction as the North Tower) is a supertall skyscraper on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Located near Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, and the Penn Station area, the building is part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, a plan to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's West Side Yard. It is the seventh-tallest building in New York City and the ninth-tallest in the United States as of May 2025. The building has a triangular observation deck, known as ''The Edge'', jutting out from the 100th floor, with a bar and event space on the 101st floor. This observation deck, at , opened in March 2020 and is the second-highest outdoor observation deck containing optically transparent flooring in the world, after Skywalk in Madeira. The building was formerly the headquarters for WarnerMedia until the company was merged with Discovery, Inc. in 2022 to form Warner Bros. Discovery, which remains a tenant. WB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
