AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed today that AT&T is planning to pull WarnerMedia-owned content like Friends and ER from rival streaming services and offer it exclusively on AT&T’s upcoming streaming service.
“We are going to have to take a lot of the great content we own that’s been licensed elsewhere and bring that back into the fold,” Stephenson said at a conference in Dallas, as reported by The Dallas News.
Stephenson’s comments echo what Kevin Reilly, TBS and TNT president overseeing WarnerMedia’s streaming service, told television critics in February. Reilly suggested AT&T was “willing” to remove WarnerMedia’s “crown jewels” from Netflix and Hulu in order to offer those shows and films directly to AT&T consumers on its own…
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