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Just in time for the holidays, many Charter Spectrum video customers now have access to two more streaming services.
Charter Communications and Warner Bros. Discovery have announced that the Max streaming service is now available to all Spectrum TV Select customers at no additional cost. The Max With Ads package, which normally retails at $9.99 per month, includes content from HBO, Warner Bros., DC Universe, and A24.
The addition of Max With Ads is part of the new distribution agreement between Charter and Warner Bros Discovery. That deal reflects a transformation by Charter to bolster the value of its video pay TV offerings by adding popular streaming services.
In addition, Spectrum TV Select Plus customers now have free access to Tennis Channel+, a subscription streaming service that offers unmatched tennis coverage. Tennis Channel+ retails for $9.17 a month. The TV Select Plus package also includes multiple regional sports networks.
The addition of Max and Discovery+ to the Spectrum TV lineup comes after Charter reached similar deals with Disney for Disney+ and ESPN+ and with Paramount Global for Paramount+ and BET+, alongside agreements to bundle AMC+ and Vix.
Spectrum TV Select customers can use the Xumo Stream Box or any other device that supports Max to immediately begin streaming new HBO Originals like "Dune: Prophecy" and "The Penguin;" Max Originals including the Emmy-winner "Hacks," fan favorites like HBO Originals "Succession," "The White Lotus," "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City," plus hit series from HGTV, TLC, ID, Adult Swim and more.
"Integrating services like Max into Spectrum TV Select furthers our goal of offering fulsome video products that include the best of linear and streaming programming," said Tom Montemagno, Executive Vice President, Programming Acquisition for Charter Communications, Inc., which operates the Spectrum brand. "Through our hybrid distribution strategy, customers in our most popular packages now have access to seamless entertainment with the ad-supported versions of Max, Disney+, ESPN+, Paramount+, ViX and Tennis Channel+, with more to come - up to an $80 per month retail value by the first half of 2025. We appreciate WBD's shared commitment to re-imagining the future of video and embracing a model that is good for our respective customers and both our companies."
Over the past year, Spectrum has renegotiated all of its major programming agreements to give customers greater overall package flexibility and the ability to include all the key streaming apps within Spectrum TV Select packages.
By early next year, TV Select packages will include the ad-supported versions of Max, Discovery+, Disney+, Peacock, Paramount+, ESPN+, AMC+, BET+, ViX and Tennis Channel+.
TV Select customers can activate their Max With Ads subscription and Tennis Channel+ subscription at Spectrum.com/StreamApps.