And if you’re already an HBO subscriber, then you most likely will have free access to HBO Max when it goes live next week. WarnerMedia has spent the past few weeks cutting distribution deals with virtually every major TV provider and digital streaming provider to give their customers that are already paying for HBO an easy access point into Max — for no additional cost.
For those customers that subscribe to HBO either directly through HBO Now, or via their pay-TV operator (including WarnerMedia’s parent company AT&T), only have to download the HBO Max app on their streaming device of choice.
For an easy list, here are the pay TV providers that have signed up to give their HBO customers automatic access to Max: Altice USA, Cox Communications, Charter, AT&T and smaller providers including WOW!, Atlantic Broadband, RCN, Grande Communications & Wave, and MCTV.
That includes customers of YouTube and Hulu’s live TV streaming bundle.
AT&T is also giving its phone customers who don’t subscribe to HBO discounts for Max.