Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) will shut down a handful of premium channels available to cable and satellite subscribers of HBO and Cinemax, according to a report published on Thursday. The report, from ...

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has refreshed the branding of some of its HBO and Cinemax channels, less than a month after closing a handful of linear channels associated with both movie networks.

For starters, the old names were pretty bad. By Tony Maglio On July 9, 2025, HBO Max finally became “HBO Max” again — we can just forget those weird two years where it was just “Max.” (Though ...

HBO is enacting more name changes, as the cabler has given a cosmetic makeover to six of its U.S. linear channels. HBO2 will now be called HBO Hits. HBO Signature is now HBO Drama. HBO Zone will ...

Cinemax is back in a big(ger) way. By Tony Maglio HBO just changed the names of six of its U.S. linear channels. Don’t worry, HBO Max is still HBO Max — for now, at least. But yes, Cinemax is back! OK ...

Viewers should see the changes reflected immediately, assuming you were even aware of these channels in the age of cord-cutting and on-demand viewing. (Before today, I had no clue what 5StarMAX was, ...