You Might Not Be Able to Stream HBO Max on Your Fire TV
AT&T (NYSE: T) will launch HBO Max on May 27, and CEO John Stankey says it'll be available on virtually all app stores, except for maybe one. "It looks like we may not be in the Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Fire app store when all of this is said and done," he said at a recent investor conference.
AT&T wouldn't be the first company to face challenges negotiating distribution with Amazon. Disney (NYSE: DIS) also went down to the wire in negotiations with Amazon for distribution of Disney+ in November.
The stakes with Amazon are high. Millions of HBO Now subscribers pay for the service through Amazon Prime Channels, and those customers won't get upgraded to HBO Max. On top of that, Fire TV has over 40 million active accounts worldwide, and represents a key distribution platform for WarnerMedia's various streaming services, not just HBO Max.
Source Fool.com
