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Warner Bros. Discovery Shutting Down Boomerang Streaming Service
Warner Bros. Discovery Shutting Down Boomerang Streaming Service-May 2024
May 24, 2025 6:38 AM

Warner Bros. Discovery is shuttering its Boomerang streaming service, a home for classic animated series and movies.

The streaming service will cease operations on Sept. 30, and its subscribers and some of its content will be folded into Max, WBDs flagship streaming platform. Boomerangs linear channel will continue to operate on cable and satellite providers, where its in about 26 million homes.

Boomerang subscribers received a message from the streamer notifying them of the shutdown and that their subscriptions will be moved to Maxs ad-free tier with no change to your subscription price until further notice. That represents a bargain for Boomerang subscribers, who pay $6 a month for the service; Maxs ad-free plan costs $17 monthly. Max already carries some of the same programming as Boomerang, including classic Looney Tunes shorts, several Scooby-Doo series, Tom and Jerry and The Flintstones. In its note to subscribers, Boomerang noted that some Boomerang content may not be available after the switch but didnt specify what wouldnt be making the move.

Boomerang launched as a cable channel in 2000, expanding what had been a programming block on Cartoon Network. It was conceived as a repository for classic animation from Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera sort ofa cartoon equivalent of TV Land though it added newer series and some original programming in subsequent years. The streaming service debuted in 2017.

The shuttering of Boomerang follows that of kids streamer Noggin, which shut down earlier this year after a round of layoffs at parent company Paramount Global.

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