{"id":117258,"date":"2023-12-29T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T09:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/warner-bros-discovery-buys-turkish-streamer-blutv-deadline\/"},"modified":"2023-12-29T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T09:52:44","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-buys-turkish-streamer-blutv-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/warner-bros-discovery-buys-turkish-streamer-blutv-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery Buys Turkish Streamer BluTV \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/warner-bros-discovery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros-discovery\" data-tag=\"warner-bros-discovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> (WBD) has acquired Turkish streamer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/blutv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blutv\" data-tag=\"blutv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BluTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe U.S. media large already had a 35% stake within the eight-year-old streamer together with content material offers in place, and has upped stake to 100%. Today\u2019s information builds on WBD boss David Zaslav\u2019s declaration in the course of the firm\u2019s Q3 outcomes name that it might be allocating capital in the direction of progress initiatives all over the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBluTV launched in 2016 in Turkey, expanded to MENA in 2018 and in 2021 partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/discovery-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_discovery-2\" data-tag=\"discovery-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discovery+<\/a> as Discovery (previous to the WBD merger) took a 35% stake. That partnership deepened earlier this 12 months when HBO content material akin to <em>Game of Thrones <\/em>and <em>The Last Of Us<\/em>, and children channels Cartoon Network and Cartoonito had been added to BluTV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJamie Cooke, WBD\u2019s General Manager overseeing Turkey, the Middle East and CEE, mentioned Turkey had \u201cbeen an important investment territory for us for over 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe acquisition of BluTV brings Turkey\u2019s first\u202flocal\u202f SVoD player into our portfolio,\u201d he added. \u201cThe combination of compelling Turkish content and a broad range of the best international series and shows from WBD is an unbeatable recipe to be locally relevant and successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBluTV CEO Denis \u015ea\u015fmaz Oflaz added: \u201cAs Turkey\u2019s leading local subscription video platform, we are proud that our steady growth since day one has made us a part of one of the largest media companies in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe acquisition coming within the quiet post-Christmas week might mark the beginning of an especially busy 12 months for WBD. Just previous to Christmas, a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/12\/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-global-merger-talks-1235679104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bombshell assembly<\/a> between Zaslav and Paramount Global boss Bob Bakish was reported and could possibly be a precursor to a merger between the 2 giants, whereas the corporate continues to be making strategic modifications as a result of Warner merger.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has acquired Turkish streamer BluTV. The U.S. media large already had a 35% stake within the eight-year-old streamer together with content material offers in place, and has upped stake to 100%. Today\u2019s information builds on WBD boss David Zaslav\u2019s declaration in the course of the firm\u2019s Q3 outcomes name that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}