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Background

In May 2021, AT&T announced that it had proposed to spin-off WarnerMedia and merge it with Discovery, Inc. to form a single company Warner Bros. Discovery as a successor to WarnerMedia, Time Inc., Turner Broadcasting System/Turner Entertainment, Kinney National Company, Discovery, Inc./Discovery Networks, Discovery Holding Company and Scripps Networks Interactive, under Discovery's CEO David Zaslav. In December 2021, it was announced that the deal was approved by the European Commission and the merger was completed by April 8, 2022. The company's previous assets included Time Inc., Time-Life, TW Telecom, AOL, Time Warner Cable, AOL Time Warner Book Group, and Warner Music Group; these operations were either sold to others or spun off as independent companies.

The company quickly gained infamy for cancelling projects, including movies, and removing many HBO Max (now known simply as Max) shows as cost-cutting on residuals (or tax deduction), most infamously projects that were completed (or near completion) but will never release for tax purposes (with rumors that they were also deleted) like Batgirl, Coyote vs. Acme and Scoob! Holiday Haunt. People criticize and blame Discovery and David Zaslav for all of this, calling Zaslav titles such as "The worst person in Hollywood" and "The worst cartoon villain" due to the rumor that he hates animation, and want him fired using the hashtag "#FireDavidZaslav".

Logo (April 8, 2022-)

Scope version
Widescreen version
White background version
Print version
In-credit version

Visuals: On a dark blue background surrounded by purple and blue lines, a golden WB shield draws itself. The interior, in a gradient using the same color as the lines then follows. The text "WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY" (set in a font called Geograph Medium) in white then slides in beside the shield. A line composed of various shades of blue then spins around the shield's border, and the logo animates in reverse.

Variants:

On the company's homepage, the lines are absent. The logo then shrinks into the bottom-left corner and transforms into the print form in white. Then, the background changes to pictures of the company's shows in different galleries. After this happens, the print logo moves to the middle, creating a spiral pattern. Then, it loops.
There is a variant where the logo animates as usual, but the logo does not animate back and the squares turn into different colored shades.
16:9, square and vertical versions of this logo exist.
An alternate version of the variant above also exists. There is the start of the logo, minus the shield forming. The following text (set in Beatrice) appears:

One mission.
One global team.
Our story starts now.

The text fades in one-by-one. Underneath all the text, the shield animates as usual, with the company name sliding down underneath it, in stacked form. The squares then form the second part of the sequence, also featuring the stacked version of the logo, but centered and larger. The sequence again repeats as it zooms in slowly.

A white background version exists, where the WB shield, this time without the gradient zooms out and the company name slides in black in beside it. This variant also has a black background version, in which the company name can be white.
A print version exists.
An in-credit version exists.
On newer episodes of Aussie Gold Hunters, the word "Produced in association with Warner Bros. Discovery" is seen below.

Technique: Digital 2D animation. This logo was designed by Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv of New York.

Audio: None or the closing theme.

Availability:

Seen on the company's website and social media accounts, and later seen on the seventeenth and final season of The Rachael Ray Show, replacing the Discovery Networks logo.
Also seen on Los Mariachis, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Aussie Gold Hunters and other shows.

External Links

◄	WarnerMedia Discovery, Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery

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+| subsidiaries = Warner Bros. Entertainment<br>Home Box Office, Inc.<br>CNN Global<br>DC Entertainment
+| country = United States|key people=Samuel DiPiazza (chairman)<br>David Zaslav (president and CEO)
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 ===Background===
+In May 2021, AT&T announced that it had proposed to spin-off [[WarnerMedia|'''Warner'''Media]] and merge it with [[Discovery Networks|'''Discovery''', Inc.]] to form a single company '''Warner Bros. Discovery''' as a successor to [[WarnerMedia]], [[Time Inc.]], [[Turner Entertainment Co.|Turner Broadcasting System/Turner Entertainment]], Kinney National Company, [[Discovery Networks|Discovery, Inc./Discovery Networks]], Discovery Holding Company and Scripps Networks Interactive, under Discovery's CEO David Zaslav. In December 2021, it was announced that the deal was approved by the European Commission and the merger was completed by April 8, 2022. The company's previous assets included Time Inc., Time-Life, TW Telecom, AOL, Time Warner Cable, AOL Time Warner Book Group, and Warner Music Group; these operations were either sold to others or spun off as independent companies.
-'''WarnerMedia''' (formerly known as '''Time Warner''' from 1990 to 2001 and again from 2003 to 2018; from 2001 to 2003, '''AOL Time Warner''' and from 1972 to 1990, '''Warner Communications''') is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation owned by [[AT&T]] and headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States. It was originally established in 1972 by Steve Ross as Warner Communications, and Time Warner was created in 1990, following a merger between '''Time Inc.''' and the original Warner Communications. On October 10, 1996, Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting System, which was established by Ted Turner in 1965. Not only did this result in the company (in a way) re-entering the basic cable television industry (in regards to nationally available channels), but Warner Bros. also regained the rights to their pre-1950 film library, which by then had been owned by Turner (the films are still technically held by Turner, but WB is responsible for sales and distribution), while Turner gained access to WB's post-1950 library, as well as other WB-owned properties. The Turner deal also brought two separate film companies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment, into the Time Warner fold. Despite spinning off Time Inc. in 2014, the company retained the Time Warner name until AT&T's acquisition in 2018, after which it became WarnerMedia. On October 22, 2016, AT&T officially announced that they intended on acquiring Time Warner for $85.4 billion (including assumed Time Warner debt), valuing the company at $107.50 per share. The proposed merger was confirmed on June 12, 2018, after AT&T won an antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department filed in 2017 to attempt to block the acquisition. The merger closed two days later, with the company becoming a subsidiary of AT&T. The company's current name was adopted a day later. Under AT&T, the company moved to launch a streaming service built around the company's content, known as HBO Max two years later. On March 4, 2019, AT&T announced a major reorganization of its broadcasting assets to effectively dissolve Turner Broadcasting. Its assets were dispersed across two of the new divisions, WarnerMedia Entertainment and WarnerMedia News & Sports. WarnerMedia Entertainment would consist of HBO, TBS, TNT, TruTV, and the direct-to-consumer video service HBO Max. WarnerMedia News & Sports would have CNN Worldwide, Turner Sports, and the AT&T SportsNet regional networks led by CNN president Jeff Zucker. Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, Turner Classic Movies, and Otter Media would be moved under Warner Bros. Gerhard Zeiler moved from being president of Turner International to chief revenue officer of WarnerMedia, and will oversee the consolidated advertising and affiliation sales. David Levy and HBO chief Richard Plepler stepped down as part of the reorganization, which was described by The Wall Street Journal as being intended to end "fiefdoms". Turner Podcast Network, formed within Turner Content Distribution in 2017, became WarnerMedia Podcast Network by May 2019. WarnerMedia later refolded Turner's entertainment-based networks under a singular umbrella unit on August 10, 2020, through a consolidation of the WarnerMedia Entertainment and Warner Bros. Entertainment assets into a new unit, WarnerMedia Studios & Networks Group. In May 2021, nearly three years after the acquisition, AT&T announced that it had proposed to spin-off WarnerMedia and merge it with [[Discovery Networks|Discovery, Inc.]] to form a new publicly-traded company, '''Warner Bros. Discovery''', under Discovery Inc.'s CEO David Zaslav. In December 2021, it was announced that the deal was approved by the European Commission and it is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2022, subject to approval by Discovery shareholders and additional closing conditions. The company's previous assets included Time Inc., TW Telecom, AOL, Time Warner Cable, AOL Time Warner Book Group, and Warner Music Group; these operations were either sold to others or spun off as independent companies. The company was ranked No. 98 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
-'''NOTE:''' This page will include Time Inc.
-==Time Inc.==
-===1st Logo (2010)===
-{{YouTube|id=Ykct15IUR4o}}
-'''Logo:''' On a white/blue background, we see the words "Time Inc. Studios" and its reflection slowly zooming in.
-'''FX/SFX:''' The zooming.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The closing theme of the show.
-'''Availability:''' Very rare. Only seen on ''Bam's World Domination''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-===2nd Logo (2017)===
-{{YouTube|id=lrjXnX8gkgg}}
-'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see the words "Time Inc." in blue.
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The remaining whoosh sound from the MaggieVision Productions logo.
-'''Availability:''' Only seen on ''The Story of Diana''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-==Time Warner==
-===(August 25, 1991-1992?)===
-{{YouTube|id=ef2bMlnqZmE|id2=5Ti8z1NAGIg|id3=YhljI2XyV1M}}
-'''Logo:''' On a {{Font color|darkred|dark red}} (later black) background, we see the text "'''A TIME WARNER COMPANY'''" (later "'''A TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY'''" in white.
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
+The company quickly gained infamy for cancelling projects, including movies, and removing many HBO Max (now known simply as [[Max Originals|Max]]) shows as cost-cutting on residuals (or tax deduction), most infamously projects that were completed (or near completion) but will never release for tax purposes (with rumors that they were also deleted) like ''Batgirl'', ''Coyote vs. Acme'' and ''Scoob! Holiday Haunt''. People criticize and blame Discovery and David Zaslav for all of this, calling Zaslav titles such as "The worst person in Hollywood" and "The worst cartoon villain" due to the rumor that he hates animation, and want him fired using the hashtag "#FireDavidZaslav".
-'''Availability:''' Seen on some early shows made by [[HBO Independent Productions]], such as the pilot episode of ''Roc''.
+===Logo (April 8, 2022-)===
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="150">
+WarnerBrosDiscovery.jpg|Scope version
+Warner Bros Discovery (2022).jpg|Widescreen version
+Warner Bros. Discovery logo (white background version).PNG|White background version
+WBD print logo.PNG|Print version
+Warner Bros. Discovery (2023) (From - Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee).png|In-credit version
+</gallery>
+{{YouTube|id=mW8VG_s3PLA|id2=sO9oqVzxNl0|id3=JHQccyZ-cBo|id4=27Jre8OfNZU|id5=DvpOlzD_zps}}
+'''Visuals:''' On a dark blue background surrounded by purple and blue lines, a golden WB shield draws itself. The interior, in a gradient using the same color as the lines then follows. The text "WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY" (set in a font called Geograph Medium) in white then slides in beside the shield. A line composed of various shades of blue then spins around the shield's border, and the logo animates in reverse.
-==AOL Time Warner==
-===(2003)===
-{{YouTube|id=A1FkIuB6Jv0}}
-'''Logo:''' On a blocky blue background, we see various clips of AOL Time Warner's films and shows. Then they all move to the left and "AOL Time Warner" in Times New Roman surrounded by lines zooms out.
-'''FX/SFX:''' 2D animation.
+'''Variants:'''
+*On the company's homepage, the lines are absent. The logo then shrinks into the bottom-left corner and transforms into the print form in white. Then, the background changes to pictures of the company's shows in different galleries. After this happens, the print logo moves to the middle, creating a spiral pattern. Then, it loops.
+* There is a variant where the logo animates as usual, but the logo does not animate back and the squares turn into different colored shades.
+*16:9, square and vertical versions of this logo exist.
+*An alternate version of the variant above also exists. There is the start of the logo, minus the shield forming. The following text (set in Beatrice) appears:
+<center>One mission.<br>One global team.<br>'''Our story starts now.'''</center>
+:The text fades in one-by-one. Underneath all the text, the shield animates as usual, with the company name sliding down underneath it, in stacked form. The squares then form the second part of the sequence, also featuring the stacked version of the logo, but centered and larger. The sequence again repeats as it zooms in slowly.
+*A white background version exists, where the WB shield, this time without the gradient zooms out and the company name slides in black in beside it. This variant also has a black background version, in which the company name can be white.
+*A print version exists.
+*An in-credit version exists.
+*On newer episodes of ''Aussie Gold Hunters'', the word "Produced in association with Warner Bros. Discovery" is seen below.
+'''Technique:''' Digital 2D animation. This logo was designed by Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv of New York.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The closing theme of the corporate reel.
+'''Audio:''' None or the closing theme.
-'''Availability:''' Only seen on a corporate reel by AOL Time Warner.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
+'''Availability:'''
+*Seen on the company's website and social media accounts, and later seen on the seventeenth and final season of ''The Rachael Ray Show'', replacing the [[Discovery Networks]] logo.
+*Also seen on ''Los Mariachis'', ''Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee'', ''Aussie Gold Hunters'' and other shows.
-==WarnerMedia==
+==External Links==
+*[https://www.wbd.com/ Official website]
-{{YouTube|id=3Unux-HrXAo}}
+*{{IMDb|0863266}}
-TBA.
+*[https://www.instagram.com/wbd/?hl=en Instagram]
+*[https://twitter.com/wbd Twitter]
+{{Chronology|[[WarnerMedia]]<br>[[Discovery Networks|Discovery, Inc.]]|}}
+{{Navbox-WarnerBrosDiscovery}}
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