{"id":3755,"date":"2020-04-16T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2517302"},"modified":"2020-04-16T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:46:00","slug":"charter-is-the-first-cable-company-with-a-deal-for-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/16\/charter-is-the-first-cable-company-with-a-deal-for-hbo-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter is the first cable company with a deal for HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many will have access to the service at no extra charge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-article_block \">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+ mt-n40\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+ pt-40\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stretch-img  hide@m-\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?thumbnail=640%2C&amp;quality=80&amp;image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-images%2F2019-11%2Faaed6760-0b17-11ea-96fd-b21ffab80aa1&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=457ff17a9dc60346ca22876733cf85d0bb047e5a\" alt=\"BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 29: Kevin Reilly, Content Officer of HBO Max and President of TNT, TBS, &amp; TruTV, speaks onstage at HBO Max WarnerMedia Investor Day Presentation at Warner Bros. Studios on October 29, 2019 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Presley Ann\/Getty Images for WarnerMedia)\" \/><figcaption class=\"mt-15 t-meta c-gray-3\"><span class=\"c-gray-7\">Presley Ann\/Getty Images for WarnerMedia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"engadget-post-contents\" class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- o-subtle_divider\" data-ylk=\"sec:postcontents;slk:Charter%20is%20the%20first%20cable%20company%20with%20a%20deal%20for%20HBO%20Max;elm:link;itc:0;\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1\">\n<p>WarnerMedia didn&rsquo;t initially say how TV providers besides AT&amp;T would offer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-10-29-hbo-max-price.html\" data-rapid_p=\"1\" data-v9y=\"1\">HBO Max<\/a>, but that&rsquo;s now becoming clear through a first-ever deal. Cable provider Charter has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.warnermediagroup.com\/us\/media-release\/warnermedia-and-charter-communications-announce-distribution-agreement-hbo-max\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">landed<\/a>&nbsp;a multi-year agreement that will make HBO Max available to all of its existing HBO subscribers on Spectrum at no extra charge. You&rsquo;ll only have to sign into the HBO Max app to start watching. Those without regular HBO can subscribe to Max directly through Charter, although there&rsquo;s not much need for that if you know your way around a web browser..<\/p>\n<p>You&rsquo;ll have access to HBO Max through Charter upon its launch sometime in May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- mt-n35 mt-n25@m mt-n15@s\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"full-width@tp- grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1 no-review\">\n<p>While Max is a stand-alone service that&rsquo;s meant to appeal to cord cutters (there&rsquo;s even a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-02-20-hbo-max-youtube-tv.html\">deal with YouTube TV<\/a>), there&rsquo;s little doubt that cable partnerships like this are important to WarnerMedia&rsquo;s underlying strategy. It&rsquo;s trying to compete with incumbent streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, and that means building an audience as quickly as possible &mdash; no-extra-charge access is a big boost, especially if Charter builds in access through its cable boxes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.warnermediagroup.com\/us\/media-release\/warnermedia-and-charter-communications-announce-distribution-agreement-hbo-max\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/pressroom.warnermediagroup.com\/us\/media-release\/warnermedia-and-charter-communications-announce-distribution-agreement-hbo-max<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Jon Fingas<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Jon Fingas<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many will have access to the service at no extra charge. Presley Ann\/Getty Images for WarnerMedia WarnerMedia didn&rsquo;t initially say how TV providers besides AT&amp;T would offer&nbsp;HBO Max, but that&rsquo;s now becoming clear through a first-ever deal. Cable provider Charter has&nbsp;landed&nbsp;a multi-year agreement that will make HBO Max available to all of its existing HBO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/16\/charter-is-the-first-cable-company-with-a-deal-for-hbo-max\/\">Continue reading <span>Charter is the first cable company with a deal for HBO Max<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/16\/charter-is-the-first-cable-company-with-a-deal-for-hbo-max\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charter is the first cable company with a deal for HBO Max - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/16\/charter-is-the-first-cable-company-with-a-deal-for-hbo-max\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charter is the first cable company with a deal for HBO Max - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many will have access to the service at no extra charge. Presley Ann\/Getty Images for WarnerMedia WarnerMedia didn&rsquo;t initially say how TV providers besides AT&amp;T would offer&nbsp;HBO Max, but that&rsquo;s now becoming clear through a first-ever deal. 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