Beloved HBO Max Feature Being Pulled Despite Upcoming Price Increase

An HBO Max feature is being removed despite the streaming service’s upcoming price increase.

Last month, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference that he believes HBO Max is “underpriced.” While he didn’t name any specific details or a timeline, he said that the streaming service will be raising its prices at some point in the future.

“The fact that this is quality — and that’s true across our company, motion picture, TV production, and streaming quality — we all think that gives us a chance to raise price,” Zaslav said, via Quartz.

What HBO Max feature is being pulled?

Despite this, HBO Max has now announced that, starting on November 17, 2025, the CNN Max live news feed will no longer be available.

“You will continue to have access to select CNN Originals, including award-winning documentaries and series, available as part of your subscription,” the company said in an email.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, this decision comes as CNN plans to launch a “direct-to-consumer streaming offering later this fall, and with CNN among the cable channels set to be cleaved off from WBD next year in the company’s split.”

“Most live sports programming on HBO Max is also expected to leave the platform at some point as well, with Discovery Inc. developing plans for its own sports offering,” the article notes.

CNN’s Alex MacCallum said in a statement, “CNN has benefitted tremendously from its two years of offering a live 24/7 feed of news to HBO Max customers. We learned from HBO Max’s large base of subscribers what people want and enjoy the most from CNN, and with the launch of our own new streaming subscription offering coming later this fall, we look forward to building off that and growing our audience with this unique, new offering.”

Source: Comingsoon.net