List of assets owned by Warner Bros. Discovery

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. Entertainment

Warner Bros. Pictures Group

Warner Bros. Television Group

Content Sales & Distribution

Products & Experiences

Digital Products
  • Sports & Entertainment Digital Network
    • WBDGE Digital & Online
    • WBDGE Podcast Network
  • Private Networks
  • iStreamPlanet
  • Vox Media - Minority stake[2]

DC Entertainment

Home Box Office, Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Networks U.S.

Kids, Young Adults & Classics Group

Lifestyle & Entertainment Group

Factual Network Group

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports

Turner Sports

Motor Trend Group

TV Networks

Automobile magazines

CNN Global

Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment

Global Streaming

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Otter Media

Warner Bros. Discovery International

Asia-Pacific

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Americas

Former subsidiaries

WarnerMedia
  • 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.
  • Atari, Inc. - sold to Jack Tramiel on July 1, 1984, for 50 dollars cash and 240 million in stock and notes.
  • ACC Select
  • 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 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 Media Networks 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.
  • College Television Network
  • 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; Funimation would merge into Crunchyroll itself in 2022.
    • VRV - originally a division of Crunchyroll, then sold to Funimation in 2021; VRV would merge into Crunchyroll itself 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.
  • Hello Sunshine (joint venture with Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rodsky and Emerson Creative) - sold
  • 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.
  • 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 MGM Holdings), 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
  • Panavision
  • Pittsburgh Pirates (48% with John W. Galbreath)
  • Playdemic - sold to Electronic Arts in 2021
  • PlayON! Sports Network
  • Six Flags - acquired by Premier Parks in 1998.
  • The Smoking Gun
  • SportSouth - acquired by Fox Cable Networks in 1996 and relaunched as Fox Sports South.
  • 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-Life Films - sold to Columbia Pictures Television in 1981; library currently owned by HBO.
      • Talent Associates
    • Time–Life Records
  • Time Warner Book Group
  • 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 - acquired by Level 3 Communications Inc. in 2014
  • Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment (Joint venture with American Express; became MTV Networks.)
    • Cable Music Channel - sold by Turner to Warner-Amex, then closed down and replaced with VH1
  • Warner Bros. Movie World Germany
  • 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
  • WPCH-TV - sold to Meredith Corporation in 2017 and later acquired by Gray Television in 2021.

Discovery, Inc.

Dormant or shuttered

These are Warner Bros. Discovery divisions which have been closed or folded into another part of the company.

WarnerMedia
  • Adult Swim Games
    • Big Pixel Studios
  • 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)
  • Bamzu.com
  • Beme Inc. - merged into CNN Digital Studios in 2018
  • 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.
  • California Video Center
  • Cartoon Network (Spain)
  • Cartoon Network Too
  • Castle Rock Television - Folded into Warner Bros. Television
  • China Entertainment Television - 36% stake held by Turner Broadcasting System; ceased broadcasting in 2016
  • CNN Checkout Channel
  • CNNfn
  • CNN Pipeline
  • CNN/SI
  • CNN Airport
  • CNN+ (In conjunction with CNN Global) - shut down on April 28, 2022
  • CNN+ (Spanish TV network) - first incarnation; joint venture with Sogecable
  • CNN Money Switzerland - joint venture with MediaGo
  • CNX
  • Crime Library
  • DC Vertigo
  • DC Universe (SVOD) - shut down with catalog absorbed into HBO Max and spun off into DC Universe Infinite on January 21, 2021
  • DramaFever - shut down in 2018
  • Esporte Interativo - TV channels shut down in 2018; brand replaced by TNT Sports in 2021
  • FandangoNOW
  • Festival
  • FilmBuff
  • FilmStruck - shut down in 2018
  • First National Pictures - acquired by Warner Bros. in 1928 and closed in 1936
  • Global Digital Media Xchange
  • Great Big Story - shut down in 2020
  • Hanna-Barbera - absorbed into Warner Bros Animation
    • Hanna-Barbera Home Video
    • Hanna-Barbera Poland
  • HBO Animation
  • HBO Defined (India)
  • HBO Now - replaced by HBO Max
  • HBO Downtown Productions — dissolved in 2001; pre-1992 library owned by HBO
  • HBO Films – folded into HBO Media Studios
  • HBO Hits (India)
  • HBO Independent Productions
  • HBO Netherlands - joint venture with Ziggo
  • HBO Go - replaced by HBO Max in United States, Latin America, Nordics, Spain and Portugal, still active in Asian countries
    • HBO Nordic
    • HBO Portugal
    • HBO España
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    • Rankin/Bass Productions - post-1974 library currently owned by Warner Bros.
    • ZIV International - acquired by Lorimar Productions in 1982; the library contents were sold to Coral Pictures in 1986.
  • Machinima, Inc. - merged into Fullscreen in 2019
  • Midway Games - shut down under bankruptcy in 2009
    • Atari Games
    • Time Warner Interactive
  • Momlogic
  • National General Pictures - sold to Warner Bros. in 1973
  • Nelson Entertainment - acquired by New Line Cinema in 1991; library currently owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    • 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
  • Outright Distribution
  • 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
  • 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
  • Seven Arts Productions
  • Shed Productions - folded into Wall to Wall
  • Snowblind Studios - merged into Monolith Productions in 2012
  • Studio T - combined brand name for TBS Productions and TNT Productions; dissolved in 2019
  • Super Deluxe
  • Take 2
  • TCM (North European TV channel)
  • Toonami (channels in India, Southeast Asia, and UK & Ireland)
  • Turner Broadcasting System Latin America
  • Turner International Argentina
  • Turner Classic Movies (Asia)
  • Turner Home Entertainment - folded into Warner Home Video in 1997
  • Turner Pictures
  • Turner Program Services - folded into Warner Bros. Television Distribution
  • 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. 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 2012
  • Warner Alliance - a now-defunct contemporary Christian music division owned by Warner Music Group, which operated until 1998. The company was done in by Warner purchasing Word Entertainment.
  • 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

Discovery, Inc.

See also

References
  1. "Warner Bros. forms digital networks division". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  2. https://www.voxmedia.com/2022/2/22/22945736/vox-media-completes-acquisition-of-group-nine
  3. Skripko, Eddy (2022-04-15). "Warner Bros. Discovery Considering DC Entertainment Overhaul". The Nerd Stash. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
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