{"id":199717,"date":"2026-03-02T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=199717"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:53:03","slug":"hbo-max-and-paramount-to-merge-into-one-streaming-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/hbo-max-and-paramount-to-merge-into-one-streaming-service\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max and Paramount+ to merge into one streaming service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/macdailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260302_hbo_max_paramount.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/macdailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260302_hbo_max_paramount.png?resize=640%2C345ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-300450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paramount CEO David Ellison announced on a Monday investor conference call that Paramount+ and HBO Max would merge into a single streaming service, contingent on regulatory approval of Paramount Skydance\u2019s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/02\/hbo-max-paramount-plus-streaming-services-merge.html\">Alex Sherman for CNBC<\/a>:<br \/>  \u200e<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> A combined service would have about 200 million subscribers given existing totals, Ellison said during his company\u2019s investor call about the WBD transaction. Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery said last week they had struck an agreement to sell WBD for $31 per share after Netflix backed out of the prolonged bidding war.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount executives didn\u2019t offer any details Monday on how the company may price a combined service or what it would be called. Still, Ellison said he wouldn\u2019t disrupt the HBO brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHBO should stay HBO,\u201d he said, citing its long history of quality programming.<\/p>\n<p>HBO is likely to be a sub-brand within the larger service, according to a person familiar with Paramount\u2019s plans. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u200e<br \/> HBO\u2019s streaming services have had more name changes than Taylor Swift\u2019s little black book, so what\u2019s one more?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u200e <\/p>\n<p><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"macdailynews-2129100708\" class=\"macdailynews-after-content macdailynews-target macdailynews-target\" data-macdailynews-trackid=\"221186\" data-macdailynews-trackbid=\"1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9654279268749293\" data-ad-slot=\"3250525581\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>  <\/div>\n<p>Source link: https:\/\/macdailynews.com\/2026\/03\/02\/hbo-max-and-paramount-to-merge-into-one-streaming-service\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount CEO David Ellison announced on a Monday investor conference call that Paramount+ and HBO Max would merge into a single streaming service, contingent on regulatory approval of Paramount Skydance\u2019s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Alex Sherman for CNBC: \u200e A combined service would have about 200 million subscribers given existing totals, Ellison said during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":32045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allnews","category-appleindustrynews","category-breakingnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199718,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199717\/revisions\/199718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}