{"id":117270,"date":"2023-12-29T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/warner-bros-discovery-acquires-turkish-streaming-service-blutv\/"},"modified":"2023-12-29T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:14:40","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-acquires-turkish-streaming-service-blutv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/warner-bros-discovery-acquires-turkish-streaming-service-blutv\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery Acquires Turkish Streaming Service BluTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWarner Bros. Discovery has acquired Turkish streaming service <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/blutv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blutv\" data-tag=\"blutv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BluTV<\/a>, the corporate introduced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFor the previous three years, Warner Bros. Discovery and BluTV \u2014 Turkey\u2019s first native SVOD service \u2014 have had a partnership that made WBD a 35% shareholder in BluTV. Since its 2016 launch, BluTV has proven fast development each in authentic content material and its content material library, resulting in the launch of Discovery+ on the platform in 2021. In February, HBO content material and youngsters channels have been added to BluTV, giving viewers entry to channels like Cartoon Network and Cartoonito, in addition to award-winning reveals like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-last-of-us\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-last-of-us\" data-tag=\"the-last-of-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last of Us<\/a>,\u201d \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d and \u201cSex and the City.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe are very excited for this new chapter,\u201d Jamie Cooke, GM CEE of Middle East and Turkey at Warner Bros. Discovery, mentioned in an announcement. \u201cTurkey has been an important investment territory for us for over 20 years and the acquisition of BluTV brings Turkey\u2019s first\u202flocal\u202fSVOD player into our portfolio. The combination of compelling Turkish content and a broad range of the best international series and shows from Warner Bros. Discovery is an unbeatable recipe to be locally relevant and successful. Together we bring Turkish audiences the most compelling viewing experience and expand the reach of Turkish content globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAdded BluTV CEO Deniz \u015ea\u015fmaz Oflaz, \u201cWe are very happy that our strategic partnership with Discovery Inc., which started in 2021, has resulted in us becoming one of the Warner Bros. Discovery brands today. As 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. From now on, we will blend the best local stories we have ever presented to our viewers with the world\u2019s best global content to curate Turkey\u2019s strongest streaming platform and bring our most successful local stories to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired Turkish streaming service BluTV, the corporate introduced on Friday. For the previous three years, Warner Bros. Discovery and BluTV \u2014 Turkey\u2019s first native SVOD service \u2014 have had a partnership that made WBD a 35% shareholder in BluTV. Since its 2016 launch, BluTV has proven fast development each in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117270","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=117270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}