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Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Sends Max Series, DC and ‘Harry Potter’ Universe to Canada’s Bell Media
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Warner Bros. Discovery has signed a long-term and exclusive licensing deal with Bell Media in Canada to make its Crave streamer the exclusive home of content from the Hollywood studio.
The agreement, also covering Bell Media’s traditional linear TV networks, encompasses English and French language rights to all HBO and Max original series on Crave, the DC universe, the Harry Potter universe, new cable and library TV series, and pay and post-pay window rights for Warner Bros. Pictures movies.
Warner Bros. Discovery TV series headed to Crave for catch-up viewing include Game of Thrones, Friends and The Big Bang Theory, which have established big fan bases in Canada over the years.
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Terms of the multi-year deal were not disclosed, but it comes ahead of Bell Media and other Canadian broadcasters shopping for new and returning TV series at the Los Angeles Screenings, usually via long-standing output deals with the major studios.
The Hollywood studios tend to shop their TV series to top Canadian broadcasters as middlemen via lucrative output deals, while choosing to distribute their film and TV content elsewhere internationally direct to consumers. The latest deal with Warner Bros. Discovery builds on a 2019 agreement with Bell Media with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution to bring HBO Max original programming to Canada.
With the latest expanded studio deal, Bell Media is assured of a steady supply of popular American programming to retain cable and streaming subscribers amid cord-cutting and changing viewership habits in the Canadian market. American film and TV fare is essential to private Canadian broadcasters as they save their best linear TV and streamer slots to U.S. studio content, while relegating homegrown TV series to the margins of their grids.
“Bell Media is committed to providing Canadians with the most compelling content, and this deal, which secures the biggest titles on screens today, does just that,” Karine Moses, senior vp of content development and news for Bell Media, said in a statement.
Warner Bros. Pictures movies included in the latest studio deal includes pay and post-pay window rights for The Flash, Dune: Part Two, Magic Mike’s Last Dance and Shazam! Fury of the Gods.
And library films in the agreement include The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Harry Potter collection and Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.
Rival Canadian broadcaster Corus Entertainment has its own pricey content deals with U.S. studios, including ones with Hulu and Paramount Global and its streaming service Pluto TV.
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A team of psychiatrists from Duke University and Yale University has found what they describe as a causal association between evening social media use and delayed sleep. In their study, reported in the journal Sleep Medicine, the group tracked social media use and delayed sleeping patterns for 44,000 Reddit users.
Prior research has shown that exposure to blue light, such as that emitted from phones and tablet computers, can lead to sleep problems because it interferes with production of melatonin. In this new effort, the researchers have found that posting to a social media site prior to normal bedtime may delay the time that people go to sleep.
The team wondered whether social media posting might be interfering with people’s normal sleep patterns, especially in the evening hours. To find out, they conducted an exhaustive analysis of data on the social media site Reddit. As with other social media sites, users on Reddit can post comments or links to content and comment on what others have posted.
In all, the research team analyzed 120 million posts made by 44,000 users on the site over a period of 15 years. They were able to establish what they described as normal bedtimes for frequent users of the site, which enabled them to measure the impact of social media posting prior to a normal bedtime.
The researchers found that if a user posted to the site approximately one hour before their normal bedtime, they were much more likely to stay up past their normal bedtime—on average, they were still awake after posting, from one to three hours after they normally went to sleep. And if they posted multiple times before their normal bedtime, they stayed up even later.
The researchers suggest that a rise in dopamine levels due to anticipation of a response from other users on the site could make it difficult for posters to relax and go to sleep. Prior research has shown that a rise in dopamine levels contributes to mental activity and alertness, neither of which is conducive to going to sleep.
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William U. Meyerson et al, The association between evening social media use and delayed sleep may be causal: Suggestive evidence from 120 million Reddit timestamps, Sleep Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2023.04.021
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