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Warner Bros. Discovery Is Breaking Up. We Have Questions.


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The latter will be a debt-saddled workhorse made up of WBD’s declining but still lucrative cable businesses and its digital arms, like Discovery (and Discovery+), CNN (and its still-forthcoming streamer), and a string of sports and entertainment channels — TNT, TBS, TCM, and more. The largest change for HBO Max subscribers may be not having Dirty Jobs and Naked and Afraid next to your The Last of Us and The White Lotus shows — even if they do sound like each other’s respective tethers. Discovery was unable to renew its contract to run NBA games on TNT last year, a loss that embarrassed the company and prompted a lawsuit from its own investors.

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