Exclusive: When BluTV CEO Deniz Şaşmaz Oflaz recently travelled to Miami for a conference, she was spoken to by border security. Not because the guard at passport control had any issues, but because his mother was watching a Turkish TV show and he was thrilled to be meeting one of the main players behind the country’s content boom.
Turkey has long been a hotbed of production and regional tastemaker in the Middle East and North Africa region, and it still ranks as one of the world’s top TV program exporters. Warner Bros Discovery’s (Wbd) recent acquisition of Oflaz’s BluTV therefore serves as a marker of how importantly the major U.S. studios view the country and its content.
In fact, Wbd is using BluTV as a testbed for further streaming initiatives in the Mena region, according to Jamie Cooke, the studio’s General Manager for Central and Eastern Europe,...
Turkey has long been a hotbed of production and regional tastemaker in the Middle East and North Africa region, and it still ranks as one of the world’s top TV program exporters. Warner Bros Discovery’s (Wbd) recent acquisition of Oflaz’s BluTV therefore serves as a marker of how importantly the major U.S. studios view the country and its content.
In fact, Wbd is using BluTV as a testbed for further streaming initiatives in the Mena region, according to Jamie Cooke, the studio’s General Manager for Central and Eastern Europe,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired Turkish streaming service BluTV, the company announced on Friday.
For the past three years, Warner Bros. Discovery and BluTV — Turkey’s first local SVOD service — have had a partnership that made Wbd a 35% shareholder in BluTV. Since its 2016 launch, BluTV has shown rapid growth both in original content and its content library, leading to the launch of Discovery+ on the platform in 2021. In February, HBO content and kids channels were added to BluTV, giving viewers access to channels like Cartoon Network and Cartoonito, as well as award-winning shows like “The Last of Us,” “Game of Thrones” and “Sex and the City.”
“We are very excited for this new chapter,” Jamie Cooke, Gm Cee of Middle East and Turkey at Warner Bros. Discovery, said in a statement. “Turkey has been an important investment territory for us for over 20 years and the acquisition of BluTV brings Turkey...
For the past three years, Warner Bros. Discovery and BluTV — Turkey’s first local SVOD service — have had a partnership that made Wbd a 35% shareholder in BluTV. Since its 2016 launch, BluTV has shown rapid growth both in original content and its content library, leading to the launch of Discovery+ on the platform in 2021. In February, HBO content and kids channels were added to BluTV, giving viewers access to channels like Cartoon Network and Cartoonito, as well as award-winning shows like “The Last of Us,” “Game of Thrones” and “Sex and the City.”
“We are very excited for this new chapter,” Jamie Cooke, Gm Cee of Middle East and Turkey at Warner Bros. Discovery, said in a statement. “Turkey has been an important investment territory for us for over 20 years and the acquisition of BluTV brings Turkey...
- 12/29/2023
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired BluTV, a subscription video-on-demand service in Turkey, the company said Friday. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
“The announcement follows three years of extensive partnership, which started in 2021 with the launch of Discovery+ on BluTV and an investment by Discovery Inc. that made the company a 35 percent shareholder of BluTV,” Wbd said. “One of the components of the partnership was the option to invest further in BluTV, which has now resulted in the acquisition of the rapidly growing SVOD service.”
BluTV launched in Turkey in 2016 and then in the Middle East and Northern Africa (Mena) region in 2018. It is also available globally to Turkish- and Arabic-speaking audiences.
The streamer offers premium BluTV originals, Turkish TV series and movies, as well as Hollywood and international series and films. “BluTV offers more than 10,000 hours of on-demand premium content and live channels to BluTV subscribers,” the company says. Its...
“The announcement follows three years of extensive partnership, which started in 2021 with the launch of Discovery+ on BluTV and an investment by Discovery Inc. that made the company a 35 percent shareholder of BluTV,” Wbd said. “One of the components of the partnership was the option to invest further in BluTV, which has now resulted in the acquisition of the rapidly growing SVOD service.”
BluTV launched in Turkey in 2016 and then in the Middle East and Northern Africa (Mena) region in 2018. It is also available globally to Turkish- and Arabic-speaking audiences.
The streamer offers premium BluTV originals, Turkish TV series and movies, as well as Hollywood and international series and films. “BluTV offers more than 10,000 hours of on-demand premium content and live channels to BluTV subscribers,” the company says. Its...
- 12/29/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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