Warner Bros. Discovery is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City . The company works in the following areas: film , television , cable networks and publishing operations.
Warner Bros. Discovery
The following is a list of major assets that are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery . As of 2023, the company's assets are reported under three segements: Studios (which consists of the Warner Bros. film and television studios, alongside the company's consumer products, interactive entertainment, licensing and publishing divisions), Networks (which consists of the company's television portfolio including its entertainment, lifestyle, news and sports networks) and DTC (which consists of HBO and the company's streaming services, including Max and Discovery+).[1]
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group
Warner Bros. Pictures
New Line Cinema
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation
Castle Rock Entertainment (brand and back library)
Flagship Entertainment Group (China) (49%) (joint venture with China Media Capital (41%) and TVB (10%))
Spyglass Media Group (minority stake, with Lantern Entertainment , Lionsgate , Cineworld and Eagle Pictures)
Warner Bros. Pictures Domestic Distribution (North American exhibition)
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution International (international distribution and production; most active in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico)
Warner Bros. Television Group
Broadcasting and FAST channel group
Free TV Networks (broadcast networks and FAST streaming channels; joint venture with Lionsgate and Gray Television )[8]
The365 (broadcast network and upcoming FAST streaming channel)
Outlaw (broadcast network and upcoming FAST streaming channel)
Defy (broadcast network; joint venture with A&E Networks )
VCR Action (upcoming FAST streaming channel)
VCR Haha (upcoming FAST streaming channel)
WBTV (FAST streaming channels)[9]
WBTV All-Out Alaska
WBTV At the Movies
WBTV Bachelor Nation
WBTV Beach Day
WBTV Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
WBTV Cartoon Rewind
WBTV Chasing Criminals
WBTV Classic Cinema
WBTV Crime Scenes
WBTV Curb Appeal
WBTV Extreme Expeditions
WBTV Extreme Living
WBTV Family Faves
WBTV Family Rulez!
WBTV Funny Favorites
WBTV Generation Drama
WBTV Ghosts Are Real
WBTV HBO Boxing
WBTV History Untold
WBTV Home Crashers
WBTV How To
WBTV I (Almost) Got Away With It
WBTV I Was Haunted
WBTV In the Garage
WBTV Living with Evil
WBTV Love & Desire
WBTV Love & Marriage
WBTV Love Kills
WBTV Medical Incredible
WBTV Monsters Are Real
WBTV My First Place
WBTV Mysterious Worlds
WBTV Nikita
WBTV On the Telly
WBTV Paws & Claws
WBTV Reality Gone Wild
WBTV Rustic Retreats
WBTV Say Yes to the Dress
WBTV Science is Amazing
WBTV Space & Beyond
WBTV Survive or Die
WBTV Sweet Escapes
WBTV The Dead Files
WBTV The FBI
WBTV The Repair Shop
WBTV Travel + Adventure
WBTV Ultimate Builds
WBTV Unique Lives
WBTV Watchlist
WBTV Welcome Home
The Cartoon Network, Inc.
Factual & Lifestyle Group
HBO
HBO2
HBO Signature
HBO Family
HBO Comedy
HBO Zone
HBO Latino
Cinemax
MoreMax
ActionMax
ThrillerMax
5StarMax
MovieMax
Cinemáx (Spanish-language simulcast of primary channel)
OuterMax
Cinemax on Demand
Magnolia Network (with Chip and Joanna Gaines)
HBO Bulk
HBO Films
HBO Documentary Films
Warner Bros. Games
Europe, Middle East and Africa
Divested
AOL - spun-off in 2009 and acquired by Verizon Communications in 2015, thus operating under the latter's media division from 2017 to 2021. AOL is now owned by Apollo Global Management . (through 90% of Yahoo! Inc. )
Atari, Inc. - sold to Jack Tramiel on July 1, 1984, for 50 dollars cash and 240 million in stock and notes.
ACC Select
All3Media - 50% stake with Liberty Global ; sold to RedBird IMI in 2024 for £1.15 billion ($1.45 billion)
Atlanta Braves - Transferred to Liberty Media in exchange for 60 million shares of Time Warner stock (valued at $1.27 billion) held by Liberty Media.
Atlanta Hawks
Atlanta Thrashers
Bad Wolf - minority stake; sold to Sony Pictures Television in 2021.
BET Holdings, Inc. - 15% with Robert L. Johnson , BET executives and shareholders, Taft Television & Radio Company and Liberty Media/Tele-Communications, Inc. , sold its stake in 1996; currently owned by Paramount Global through its CBS Entertainment Group division.
BET Action Pay-Per-View - purchased by TVN Entertainment Corp. in 2001
BET on Jazz
Central European Media Enterprises - 75% equity holding; sold to PPF in August 2020.
Chilevisión - sold to Paramount Networks Americas in 2021.
Comedy Central (50% with Viacom ) - sold its stake in 2003; currently owned by Paramount Global .
CourtTV - brand name and pre-2008 original programming library acquired by Katz Broadcasting /E. W. Scripps Company in December 2018.
Crunchyroll - sold to Sony 's joint venture anime division Funimation , run by Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan 's Aniplex , in 2021; the merged company was branded entirely as Crunchyroll, LLC in 2022, with the Funimation name continuing to be used for its streaming service until the merger is completed.
VRV - included in the sale and also folded into Crunchyroll
Discovery Digital Networks - sold to Group Nine Media in 2016
Discovery Education - majority stake sold to Francisco Partners in 2018 and Clearlake Capital in 2022
E! - Time Warner's stake acquired by Comcast and The Walt Disney Company in 1997.
Game Show Network, LLC — 42% stake acquired by co-owner Sony Pictures Television in 2019.
GameTap - sold to Metaboli in 2008, later closed in 2010.
Great American Country - sold to GAC Media in 2021 and rebranded as GAC Family
Gunpowder & Sky - spun-off [ citation needed ]
Hello Sunshine (joint venture with Reese Witherspoon , Seth Rodsky and Emerson Creative) - sold
HowStuffWorks - sold to Blucora in 2014
Hulu (10% stake) - sold to Hulu, LLC, but was allocated between The Walt Disney Company (7%) and Comcast (3%); Disney acquired majority interest (67%) of Hulu with Comcast as minority partner (33%) in 2019 until early 2024, when Disney acquired the remaining interest in Hulu.
LazyTown Entertainment - sold to Magnús Scheving in 2024.
Lumiere Pictures and Television – minority stake from 1995 to 1996; sold to UGC and Groupe Canal+ in 1996
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - between 1967 and 1969 was owned by Time Inc. as a shareholder; briefly owned by Turner Broadcasting System in 1986; sold back to Kirk Kerkorian later that year and currently owned by Amazon (through Amazon MGM Studios ), while the pre-May 1986 library was retained by Turner Entertainment Co.
National Kinney Corporation - spun-off in 1978 and renamed as Andal Corporation
New York Cosmos
New Form Digital - Sold by Whistle in 2019
Particular Crowd[33] - spun-off in 2023.
Panavision
Pittsburgh Pirates (48% with John W. Galbreath )
Playdemic - sold to Electronic Arts in 2021
PlayON! Sports Network
Sea World (Gold Coast) - 50% stake bought out by Village Roadshow Theme Parks in 2006 along with Wet 'N' Wild Gold Coast and Warner Bros Movie World.
Six Flags - acquired by Premier Parks in 1998.
SourceFed Studios - Sold to Group Nine Media, closed in 2017
Seeker - Sold to Group Nine Media.
The Burbank Studios - re-acquired by Worthe Real Estate Group, QuadReal Property Group and Stockbridge Capital Group in 2024[34]
The Smoking Gun
SportSouth - acquired by Fox Cable Networks in 1996 and relaunched as Fox Sports South .
TestTube - Sold by NowThis News renamed NowThis Originals
Time Inc. - spun-off in 2014, then acquired by Meredith Corporation in 2018, and later acquired by IAC 's Dotdash in 2021.
IPC Media
Time4 Media - formerly Times Mirror magazines group purchased from Tribune Company , sold to Bonnier Group & World Publications
Transworld Magazine Corporation
Popular Science
Marine Group
Time4Outdoors
Mountain Sports Media
The Parenting Group Inc. - Time, Inc. magazine group; sold to Bonnier and World Publications
Family Life - sold to Time Warner in 1999; closed down in 2001
Time Life
Time Warner Book Group - sold to Hachette Livre in 2006
Time Warner Cable - spun-off in 2009 and has been acquired by Charter Communications in 2016.
TMZ - sold to Fox Corporation in 2021.
TT Centroid - moved to Pinewood Studios and spun off in 2008
TriStar Pictures - joint venture with CBS and Columbia Pictures . In December 1986, HBO sold TriStar to Columbia Pictures.
truTV UK and Ireland
Turner South - acquired by Fox Cable Networks in 2006 and relaunched as SportSouth .
TW Telecom - spun off in 1998, acquired by Level 3 Communications Inc. in 2014
Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment - joint venture with American Express ; became MTV Networks and sold to Viacom in 1986
Warner Bros. Movie World Gold Coast - 50% stake in the park bought out by Village Roadshow Theme Parks in 2006 along with Wet 'n' Wild Gold Coast and Sea World.
Warner Bros. Movie World Germany
Warner Bros. Ranch - sold to Stockbridge Capital Group[35] [36] [37]
Warner Music Group - spun-off in 2004, then acquired by Access Industries in 2011, and later spun-off again into an IPO in 2020
Warner Advanced Media Operations - acquired by Cinram International in 2003
WEA Manufacturing - acquired by Cinram International in 2003
Wet'n'Wild Water World - 50% in the park bought out by Village Roadshow Theme Parks in 2006 along with Warner Bros. Movie World and Sea World.
WPCH-TV - sold to Meredith Corporation in 2017 and later acquired by Gray Television in 2021.
Dormant or shuttered
These are Warner Bros. Discovery divisions which have been closed or folded into another part of the company.
3net - 3D television channel jointly owned with Sony and IMAX Corporation ; operated from 2011 to 2014
7food network
AT&T SportsNet - shut down on October 21, 2023[38] [39]
Adult Swim Games
AIMS Multimedia - acquired by Discovery Education in 2004
Altschul Group Corporation - acquired by Discovery Education in 2003
Animal Planet Italy
Associated Artists Productions - bought 1933–1957 Fleischer /Famous Studios Popeye cartoons and pre-1950 WB library in 1956; the latter library would find its way back to Warner ownership in 1996 as part of the Turner merger (which also incorporated the Popeye cartoons)
Animalist
Achievement Hunter - closed in 2023
Bamzu.com
Beme Inc. - merged into CNN Digital Studios in 2018
Boomerang Germany - closed in 2018 and replaced by Boomerang CEE with German advertisements.
Boomerang (Latin America) - closed in 2021 and replaced by Cartoonito (Latin America)
Brut Productions - acquired by Turner Broadcasting System from Faberge Inc. in 1982; library currently owned by Turner Entertainment Co.
Beyond The Lot
C4
California Video Center
Canal 8 Sport
Cartoonito (Spain)
Cartoon Network (Spain) - Shut down in 2013 and replaced by the Spanish version of Boing
Cartoon Network Too
Cartoon On-Air
Castle Rock Television - Folded into Warner Bros. Television
China Entertainment Television - 36% stake held by Turner Broadcasting System; ceased broadcasting in 2016
Clearvue & SVE - acquired by Discovery Education in 2006
CNN Airport
CNN Checkout Channel
CNNfn
CNN Philippines (Nine Media Corporation and Radio Philippines Network ) (closed on February 1, 2024 and replaced by RPTV )
CNN Pipeline
CNN/SI
CNN+ (in conjunction with CNN Worldwide) - second incarnation; shut down on April 28, 2022
CNN+ (Spanish TV network) - first incarnation; joint venture with Sogecable
CNN Money Switzerland - joint venture with MediaGo
Cartoon Network Extreme (CNX)
Crime Library
DC Entertainment - folded into DC Comics in 2023[15] [41]
DC Vertigo
DC Universe (SVOD) - shut down with catalog absorbed into HBO Max and spun off into DC Universe Infinite on January 21, 2021
Discovery Channel Multimedia
Discovery Channel Radio
Discovery Channel Romania
Discovery Civilization
Discovery Family (France) - shut down in 2022
Discovery Family Go - shut down on May 2, 2022
Discovery Films
Discovery Geschichte
Discovery Health Channel
Discovery Home & Health Southeast Asia
Discovery Home & Health UK
Discovery Kids Australia
Discovery Kids UK
Discovery People
Discovery Real Time
Discovery Real Time France
Discovery Science CEEMEA - shut down on January 5, 2024
Discovery Science France - shut down on February 26, 2024; replaced by TLC
Discovery Shed
Discovery Travel & Living
Discovery Wings
Discovery World Europe
DKids
DMAX MENA
Dplay - replaced in available regions by Discovery+
DTX - shut down on January 5, 2024
DramaFever - shut down in 2018
eleveneleven
Esporte Interativo - TV channels shut down in 2018; brand replaced by TNT Sports in 2021
Eurosport 360°
Eurosport 2 Xtra (Portugal)
Eurosport News
Eurosport Player - replaced in available regions by Discovery+
Eurosport Plus
FandangoNOW
Festival
FilmBuff
FilmStruck - shut down in 2018
Fine Living Europe
Fine Living Italy
First National Pictures - acquired by Warner Bros. in 1928 and closed in 1936
FitTV
Food Network (New Zealand)
Four
Fullscreen, Inc. - team laid off and company absorbed into WBD Ad Sales[42]
Funhaus - Closed in 2024
GCN+ and GCN app - closed on December 19, 2023[43]
Glitz - closed on February 29, 2024
Global Digital Media Xchange
Golf World (magazine)
GolfTV - dissolved into Discovery+ in 2022
Good Food
GXT
Hanna-Barbera - absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation
Hanna-Barbera Home Video
Hanna-Barbera Poland
HBO Animation
HBO Defined (India)
HBO Now - replaced/dissolved by HBO Max
HBO Downtown Productions — dissolved in 2001; pre-1992 library owned by HBO
HBO Hits (India)
HBO Independent Productions
HBO Netherlands - joint venture with Ziggo
HBO Go - replaced by HBO Max in the United States, Latin America, Nordics, Spain, Portugal, Central and Eastern Europe, still active in Asian countries, would be folded and converted into simply Max which merging HBO Max and Discovery+ in late-2024
HBO NYC Productions (formerly called HBO Showcase) - folded into HBO Films
HBO Home Entertainment - transferred and folded into Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in 2019
HBO Latin America Group - transferred and folded into Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America Group
HBO Kids - discontinued on February 29, 2024
Headstrong Pictures
HOOQ (streaming service joint venture with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Singtel) - shut down on 30 April 2020 due to liquidation and eventually sold to Coupang in July 2020 to form the nucleus of its streaming service named Coupang Play
I.Sat - closed on February 29, 2024
In2TV - joint venture between AOL and Warner Bros. Television, integrated into AOL Video in December 2006
iStreamPlanet - shuttered in 2023[44]
Lorimar Film Entertainment
Monogram Pictures /Allied Artists Pictures Corporation - sold to Lorimar in 1979; post-August 17, 1946 library currently owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment
Interstate Television - founded in early 1950s as the TV arm of Allied Artists, became Allied Artists Television in 1960s and was folded into Lorimar with the rest of AAPC in 1979
Lorimar Home Video - folded into Warner Home Video in 1988
Lorimar Records
Lorimar Television
Machinima, Inc. - merged into Fullscreen in 2019
Momlogic
Mondo Mah-jong TV - ceased broadcasting on March 31, 2022, due to the closure of the platform that carried the channel.
MotorTrend+ (subscription streaming service ) - closing at the end of March 2024, with most of its subscribers and programming migrating to Discovery+ and Max [45]
MuchMusic - closed on February 29, 2024
National General Pictures - sold to Warner Bros. in 1973
Nelson Entertainment - acquired by New Line Cinema in 1991; library currently owned by Amazon MGM Studios (via Orion Pictures )
Embassy Home Entertainment - former divisions of its sister company, Embassy Pictures
Galactic Films, Inc.
Spikings Corporation
Charter Entertainment
New Line Home Entertainment - Folded into Warner Home Video
New Line Television - Folded into Warner Bros. Television
New Line Television Pay-Per-View - Folded into Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Oh!K
Outright Distribution
Otter Media - closed on April 8, 2022
Pathé UK
People's Court Raw
Picturehouse - renamed from Fine Line Features in 2005, then closed in 2008; reopened in 2013 as an independent studio
Prime Time Entertainment Network
Quest Arabiya
Quibi - Minority stake; shut down.
Red by HBO (24/7 Asian cinema channel; joint venture with Mei Ah Entertainment ) - ceased broadcasting on July 1, 2021
Revision3
Rooster Teeth - shut down in 2024
Setanta Sports Asia
Seven Arts Productions
Shed Productions - folded into Wall to Wall
Snowblind Studios - merged into Monolith Productions in 2012
Stage 13 - closed in 2022.[47]
Screwattack - Folded into Death Battle
Studio T - combined Turner brand name for TBS Productions and TNT Productions; dissolved in 2019
Super Deluxe
TBS (Latin America) - closed in 2023 and replaced by TNT Novelas
TCM Movies
ThreeLife
Tabi Tele - ceased broadcasting on March 31, 2022, due to the closure of the platform that carried the channel.
Take 2
Toonami (channels in India , Southeast Asia , and UK & Ireland )
TNT Sweden - closed in 2019
TruTV (Latin America) - closed in 2023 and replaced by Adult Swim (Latin America)
Turner Broadcasting System - closed in 2019
Turner Broadcasting System Latin America
Turner International Argentina
Turner Classic Movies 2
Turner Classic Movies (Asia)
Turner Classic Movies (Northern Europe)
Turner Home Entertainment - folded into Warner Home Video as an in-name-only unit in December 1996
Turner Pictures - folded into Warner Bros.
Turner Program Services - folded into Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Vivolta (20% stake)
Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & Network Features - a former division of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution that licensed Warner Bros. feature films, television series, miniseries, TV films, and specials to the pay television and basic cable markets, as well as feature films to the broadcast networks. Formed in 1994, It was re-organized in 2001 as “Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution”, before folding into Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in 2008
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment - closed in 2009
Warner Bros. Feature Animation
Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics - closed in 2022
Warner Bros. Jungle Habitat
Warner Bros. Studio Store
WB Channel
Watershed Television
Warner Horizon Scripted Television - merged into Warner Bros. Television Studios in 2020
WarnerMax - short-lived film production company joint venture Warner Bros. and HBO Max, it closed down in October 2020
Warner Independent Pictures - closed in 2008
Warner Premiere - closed in 2013
Warner Alliance - a now-defunct contemporary Christian music division owned by Warner Music Group, which operated until 1998. The company was dissolved by Warner purchasing Word Entertainment.
Warner Leisure, Inc. - 80% stake; previously known as Leisure Development Corp. of America; closed in 1985
Warner Resound - a now-defunct Christian division of Warner Music Group , focused on distributing Christian music and media, as well as products from other artists like Vigilantes of Love and The Call. The company largely became dormant after Word Entertainment was sold to Warner Music Group.
Weintraub Entertainment Group - 15% stake previously held by Columbia Pictures
The WB - 64% joint venture with Tribune Broadcasting ; closed in 2006.
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) - video library, selected wrestler contracts and other intellectual property sold to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc., now known as WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), through its subsidiary W. Acquisition Company (which was subsequently renamed WCW Inc. following the sale) in 2001.
Yalli Productions