>>119944581AT&T's gutting the entire combined companies. There's a war between their suits and the old HBO suits. The old HBO suits still want to license out some old material because it is a great consistent revenue stream, but AT&T wants everything exclusively on HBOMAX.
The same thing happened with AT&T and the Warner Film division. The idea to put all of the 2021 movies on HMAX was done without the film division making deals with the production teams.
Back in August when the first wave of DC cuts happened, basically everyone with a VP next to their name got fired.