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HBO max removes select content it owns to prepare for merger.

CommunicationsMajor said:
I though Noggin used to show old Sesame Street episodes in the early 2000s.
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They did, and that was actually very similar to HBO Max if you think about it. They primarily just had those on because they needed to fill the space when the channel was new and had no original programming. So it was an added bonus for classic Sesame Street fans. And the show was only 30 years old than (compared to being 53 years old now). And all the episodes that were on there had not been seen by the public since they originally aired. Because Sesame Street never really had reruns. Sure, the same episode would air multiple times a day, and sometimes the early morning episode the next day would be the one from the day before, and sometimes they would air the episodes on the weekend. But they never aired old episodes from past seasons or anything like that.
 

EXCLUSIVE: After a 33-year run at Warner Bros Pictures, and lots of hits including the Lego franchise, the last four Harry Potter films, multi-Oscar winner Mad Max: Fury Road and this summer’s hit Elvis, Courtenay Valenti, the studio’s President, Production and Development, has decided to leave.


While’s there been a lot of news about cuts at Warner Bros Discovery, Valenti’s departure is not that. This is a highly respected studio executive with a great streak who is looking to move on with what’s next in life. Valenti will depart at the end of October, and leaves behind a keen production staff in Kevin McCormick, Jesse Ehrman, Sheila Walcott, Cate Adams and Peter Dodd under Warner Bros Pictures Group co-chairs and CEOs, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy.
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More changes at WB this time John Harwood and Courteneay Valenti are exiting the company.
 
ssetta said:
They did, and that was actually very similar to HBO Max if you think about it. They primarily just had those on because they needed to fill the space when the channel was new and had no original programming. So it was an added bonus for classic Sesame Street fans. And the show was only 30 years old than (compared to being 53 years old now). And all the episodes that were on there had not been seen by the public since they originally aired. Because Sesame Street never really had reruns. Sure, the same episode would air multiple times a day, and sometimes the early morning episode the next day would be the one from the day before, and sometimes they would air the episodes on the weekend. But they never aired old episodes from past seasons or anything like that.
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Where I lived, they also had replays on Sunday mornings, so throughout the year you had a chance to see some episodes twice. I remember seeing the Mr Snuffalupugas reveal episode (adults seeing him for the first time) more than once. Plus, honest question, did they really make around 260 episodes each year? (5*52 weeks in a year) ? From what I can find on the Internet, it was 130 episodes per season, which is only enough for 26 weeks. So they no doubt had "summer reruns" as well.
 
NoDakObserver said:
Where I lived, they also had replays on Sunday mornings, so throughout the year you had a chance to see some episodes twice. I remember seeing the Mr Snuffalupugas reveal episode (adults seeing him for the first time) more than once. Plus, honest question, did they really make around 260 episodes each year? (5*52 weeks in a year) ? From what I can find on the Internet, it was 130 episodes per season, which is only enough for 26 weeks. So they no doubt had "summer reruns" as well.
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Yes, they did 130 episodes per season, so it took exactly a year to run the entire season twice.
 

Note this has been going on for some time but different divisions were facing the cuts prior to ad sales division.

The layoffs of about 30% of ad sales employees at Warner Bros Discovery started today and will likely proceed over the next few weeks.

The latest cuts from a combined workforce in the range of 40,000 (10,000 from Discovery and the rest from WarnerMedia) come as the company continues to work toward achieving at least $3 billion in cost savings from the $43 billion merger. Since the deal closed in April, the company has embarked on an aggressive effort to roll back expenses in many areas. Not all of the savings will be achieved via lower payroll, of course — many operations are also coming together, none bigger than the streaming services HBO Max and Discovery+.
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Chris Licht Foreshadows CNN Layoffs in Memo to Staff

CNN chief says there will be "noticeable change to this organization" over the "next several weeks."
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Another set of cuts are at play this time at CNN.

CNN CEO Chris Licht is preparing his staff for a shakeup (read: layoffs). On Wednesday, Licht sent out a memo to employees, warning about macroeconomic factors impacting his news organization.

“There is widespread concern over the global economic outlook, and we must factor that risk into our long-term planning,” Licht wrote in the memo, which IndieWire obtained. “All this together will mean noticeable change to this organization. That, by definition, is unsettling. These changes will not be easy because they will affect people, budgets, and projects.”
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