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Broadcast area | Latin America Brazil Mexico Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Southeast Asia Singapore Malaysia Philippines Indonesia Thailand Vietnam East Asia Hong Kong Taiwan Japan South Korea South Asia Sri Lanka Bangladesh Maldives Europe France Belgium Switzerland Germany Poland Romania Italy Spain Czech Republic |
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Programming | |
Language(s) | English Spanish Portuguese French Chinese Indonesian Malaysian Thai Vietnamese Cantonese Japanese Korean German Polish Romanian Italian Czech |
Picture format | 1080iHDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery |
History | |
Launched | September 30, 1995 (Latin America) January 1, 2010 (Asia) November 9, 2017 (France) September 25, 2021 (Germany) October 23, 2021 (Poland and Romania) October 30, 2022 (Italy) April 14, 2023 (Spain) April 2, 2024 (Czech Republic) |
Former names | WBTV: El Canal Warner / O Canal da Warner (1996–2001),The Warner Channel (2001–'02, 1996–2002 on the channel logo) |
Links | |
Website | Official Website (Brazil) Official Website (Latin America) Official Website (Asia) Official Website (France) Official Website (Germany) Official Website (Poland) Official Website (Romania) Official Website (Italy) Official Website (Spain) Official Website (Czech) |
Warner TV is apay television channel mainly airing inLatin America,Europe, parts ofSouth Asia andSoutheast Asia, which is owned byWarner Bros. Discovery through itsInternational unit that focuses on airingAmerican series and films.
Most programming air in their originalEnglish audio, with subtitles inSpanish (for Latin American countries except Brazil),Portuguese (for Brazil),Chinese (for Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore),Malaysian (for Malaysia) andIndonesian (for Indonesia), however, there are also somedubbed programming.
Warner TV's headquarters are located inBrazil,Colombia,Chile,Singapore, andMalaysia; the broadcasting, however, is based inMiami for Latin American viewers and Singapore for Asian viewers.
The channel's catalogue, for its entirety, is sourced from the library ofWarner Bros., which licensed its name to the channel until 2019.
In March 2015, the Filipino feed separated from the Southeast Asian Warner TV channel to air a different programming schedule, including selected programming fromtruTV.[1]
On November 1, 2015, the Latin American channel changed it to dub a programming instead of just subtitling them. This caused an uproar to most of its audience.
On November 9, 2017,Turner Broadcasting System France andCanal+ both launched Warner TV inFrance, replacingSyfy which became aSFR exclusive.[2]
On April 22, 2020, the French version launched in Sub-Saharan Africa inStarTimes.
On May 2, 2020, Warner TV began broadcasting theAdult Swim programming block in Latin America and Brazil, which initially includedRick and Morty,Robot Chicken, andAqua Teen Hunger Force.[3][4][5] On May 3, 2021,Metalocalypse andThe Shivering Truth were added to the Adult Swim programming block.[6] On November 8, 2021, Adult Swim was pulled from Warner TV's lineup.
On June 14, 2021, it was announced that the TNT channels in Germany would be rebranded into Warner TV from September 25, 2021.[7]
On July 8, 2021, it was announced that TNT in Poland and Romania would rebrand into Warner TV from October 23, 2021.[8][9]
In October 2022, it was announced that a Warner TV channel would be launched in Italy by October 30 of the same year. However unlike other Warner TV channels, this one will be operating as a free to air channel on Italian DTT.[10]
On February 27, 2023 it was announced that TNT in Spain would be rebranded as Warner TV on April 14, 2023.[11]
In January 2024, it was announced that Warner TV would be launched in the Czech Republic sometime in the same year,[12] and on March 4, WBD has confirmed that the channel would launch on April 2.[13]
Shows markedwith a parenthesis after the title are Southeast-Asia-only programs unless otherwise noted.