Standalone TNT Sports Streaming App in the Works

The great unbundling trend of 2025 looks to continue. Today, Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels laid out some direct-to-consumer plans he’s working on as a result of the corporate spinoff of the company’s linear assets.

The headline is that the company will launch a TNT Sports streaming app.

“We’re working on creating our own TNT Sports app, which is gonna be available as a streaming product, but importantly, also as a bundle option internally with Discovery+ or HBO Max, but also open to other partners in the industry,” Wiedenfels said today at the Bank of America 2025 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference.

TNT Sports has access to Team USA soccer (men’s and women’s), NHL, MLB, March Madness, NASCAR, and AEW.

The portfolio is greatly diminished because of the loss of TNT’s NBA package, but that loss likely led to the Warner Bros. Discovery breakup. The company has been retreating in recent months, pivoting back to the old name of its flagship streamer (HBO Max), and dumping nearly all the children’s content from the platform.

Wiedenfels didn’t give a specific timetable on the TNT Sports app’s launch, but said “we’ll hopefully have that ready right around the time of our separation (from Warner Bros.).”

In 2024, TNT was one of 10 most-watched English-language TV channels.

Wiedenfels also shared that the company is very close to launching the standalone CNN streaming service. He called it an “all-encompassing news product that I think is is is gonna be really exciting.” You may recall CNN+ lasted less than a month before it got shut down in 2022. But that product didn’t offer the full, linear CNN channel. And in 2025, companies like Fox and ESPN are showing no resistance to launching full-blown direct-to-consumer options.

After the split, Wiedenfels will become the CEO of the new standalone company, Discovery Global.