Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired Turkish streaming service BluTV, the corporate introduced on Friday.
For the previous three years, Warner Bros. Discovery and BluTV — Turkey’s first native SVOD service — have had a partnership that made WBD a 35% shareholder in BluTV. Since its 2016 launch, BluTV has proven speedy progress each in unique content material and its content material library, resulting in the launch of Discovery+ on the platform in 2021. In February, HBO content material and youngsters channels had been added to BluTV, giving viewers entry to channels like Cartoon Community and Cartoonito, in addition to award-winning reveals like “The Final of Us,” “Recreation of Thrones” and “Intercourse and the Metropolis.”
“We’re very excited for this new chapter,” Jamie Cooke, GM CEE of Center East and Turkey at Warner Bros. Discovery, stated in an announcement. “Turkey has been an essential funding territory for us for over 20 years and the acquisition of BluTV brings Turkey’s first native SVOD participant into our portfolio. The mix of compelling Turkish content material and a broad vary of one of the best worldwide sequence and reveals from Warner Bros. Discovery is an unbeatable recipe to be domestically related and profitable. Collectively we convey Turkish audiences probably the most compelling viewing expertise and broaden the attain of Turkish content material globally.”
Added BluTV CEO Deniz Şaşmaz Oflaz, “We’re very completely happy that our strategic partnership with Discovery Inc., which began in 2021, has resulted in us turning into one of many Warner Bros. Discovery manufacturers in the present day. As Turkey’s main native subscription video platform, we’re proud that our regular progress since day one has made us part of one of many largest media corporations on this planet. Any longer, we’ll mix one of the best native tales we’ve got ever offered to our viewers with the world’s greatest world content material to curate Turkey’s strongest streaming platform and produce our most profitable native tales to the world.”
