Amazon Prime Video Channels will reportedly lose HBO access next year

Amazon will cease providing HBO as a standalone Prime Video Channel subsequent yr, in keeping with CNBC. The corporate provides HBO as a channel subscription for $15 a month to Prime subscribers who can then entry its programming by Hearth TV. After Amazon’s present settlement expires with WarnerMedia in 2021, although, it would reportedly retire the channel utterly. The publication says it’s a part of WarnerMedia’s plan to make HBO Max the one level of entry for patrons on streaming providers.

HBO Max lastly became available as an app for the Amazon Hearth TV platform a number of days in the past, virtually six months after it launched as a result of what gave the impression to be a negotiation issue between the businesses. It has every little thing normal HBO provides together with further content material and entry to new motion pictures, akin to Wonder Woman 1984 come December. Prospects at present paying for HBO on cable or an HBO Channel subscription can entry the app at no additional value.