- CEO
- David M. Zaslav
- Full Time Employees
- 35,500
- Sector
- Consumer services
- Industry
- Cable/Satellite TV
- Address
- New York United States
- IPO Date
- Jul 6, 2005
- Business
- Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. is a global media and entertainment company that creates, produces, acquires, and distributes content across television, film, streaming, and digital interactive entertainment platforms. The company operates through three primary business segments: Studios, Networks, and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC). Its Studios segment develops, produces, and distributes feature films, television programming, animation, and video games through Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Television Group, DC Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, and Warner Bros. Games, holding global franchises such as DC Universe, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones; licenses content to third-party broadcast and cable networks; and distributes physical and digital home entertainment. Its Networks segment owns and operates domestic and international linear television networks and regional sports networks, offering non-fiction, factual, entertainment, sports, and news programming through brands including CNN, TNT, TBS, Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Eurosport, and MotorTrend. Its Direct-to-Consumer segment operates subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) and ad-supported streaming platforms, delivering original series, theatrical releases, library content, and live sports broadcasting through its flagship streaming service Max, as well as discovery+, Bleacher Report digital properties, and international digital platforms. The company serves residential consumers, commercial enterprises, cable and satellite operators, and digital distributors across North America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. Warner Bros. Discovery was formed in April 2022 through the merger of Discovery, Inc. and WarnerMedia, with predecessor historical roots dating to 1923, and is headquartered in New York, New York. In recent corporate developments, the company rebranded and unified its flagship direct-to-consumer offering into Max, executing multi-region global expansions across Latin America and European territories; established strategic direct-to-consumer bundling alliances, including a cross-company streaming package with Disney+ and Hulu; participated in the formation of the Venu Sports streaming joint venture alongside The Walt Disney Company and Fox Corporation; restructured its creative production leadership through the establishment of DC Studios to spearhead unified cinematic and television universes; and executed ongoing capital structure optimization and operational synergy programs to accelerate post-merger debt reduction.