Company: WBD
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001437107-25-000192
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Company: Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 Company, in a tax-free transaction, into two publicly traded companies (the “Separation”). Warner Bros. will primarily consist of our Streaming and Studios reportable segments and include Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, DC Studios, HBO, and HBO Max, as well as its film and television libraries. Discovery Global will primarily consist of our Global Linear Networks reportable segment and include premier entertainment, sports and news television brands around the world including CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., and Discovery, free-to-air channels across Europe, and digital products such as Discovery+ and Bleacher Report. The Separation is expected to be completed by mid-2026, subject to closing and other conditions, including final approval by the Warner Bros. Discovery Board, receipt of tax opinions with respect to the tax-free nature of the transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and market conditions. There can be no assurance that the Separation will occur in accordance with the expected plans or anticipated timeline, or at all.

In the first quarter of 2025, the Company renamed its Direct-to-Consumer reportable segment to Streaming and its Networks reportable segment to Global Linear Networks. There have been no changes to the Company’s reportable segments or the composition of our reportable segments as a result of these announcements. We have included supplemental Streaming & Studios and Global Linear Networks division information and supplemental consolidating data within Management’s Discussion and Analysis of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

As of June 30, 2025, we classified our operations in three reportable segments: 

•Streaming - Our Streaming segment primarily consists of our premium pay-TV and streaming services.

•Studios - Our Studios segment primarily consists of the production and release of feature films for initial exhibition in theaters, production and initial licensing of television programs to third parties and our networks/streaming services, distribution of our films and television programs to various third party and internal television and streaming services, distribution through the home entertainment market (physical and digital), related consumer products and themed experience licensing, and interactive gaming.

•Global Linear Networks - Our Global Linear Networks segment primarily consists of our domestic and international television networks.

Our segment presentation is aligned with our management structure and the financial information management uses to make decisions about operating matters, such as the allocation of resources and business performance assessments.

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INDUSTRY TRENDS

Headwinds in the industry, such as continued pressures on linear distribution and declines in linear subscribers and continued softness in the U.S. linear