TNT Sports moves from discovery+ to HBO Max on Thursday, 26 March, making the HBO Max app and website the new streaming home for live sport in the UK and Ireland. It's a much publicised switch that has worried fans, so I went through the process to see how to actually move over.
The standalone TNT Sports price remains £30.99 per month, and most existing subscribers can sign in to HBO Max using their current Discovery+ email and password.
How to make the switch
Fortunately, it is very simple. On PC it is as easy and just searching for HBO Max – maybe put UK on the end but that shouldn't really be necessary – and then just logging in with your Discovery+ email and password.
For mobile, go to Play Store or the App Store, depending if you're Android or Apple, download the app and just log in with your email and password from Discovery+. You're all set!
Now, for TV, this can differ depending on your TV or you plan. For me, I have a reasonably old (in tech terms) Samsung Smart TV. All I needed to do was search for HBO Max, it took until I just had the X to type for it to actually come up.
Download and open the app and, in my case, it immediately logged me in as I was already logged in with Discovery+. Whether this will be the case with everyone, I am not sure.
For the next few days that means you can watch Volta a Catalunya and E3 Saxo Classic on the new platform.
What do I do with my Discovery+ app?
Well, nothing, really. For now, you can still use the application to stream sport or anything else for that matter that is available on the site. However, this will likely change very soon as all sport migrates to HBO Max for TNT Sports.
You do not need to cancel you subscription for Discovery+, according to the email sent out to all UK users "Your subscription will move automatically. You do not need to cancel or resubscribe."
So now you're set to continue watching all the cycling available on TNT Sports but now through HBO Max!
Important to note, some partner routes work differently. On Prime Video, the TNT Sports add-on continues under the same name within the Prime Video app. Sky customers need to activate TNT Sports on HBO Max through Sky, while Virgin Media subscribers can purchase a TNT Sports plan via a supported Virgin Media device.
Customers who signed up through the Amazon Appstore or Roku face a harder break: their current subscription ends on the next billing date on or after 21 February, and they will need to resubscribe directly through HBO Max.
What does the change cover?
The migration covers a broad portfolio of live rights: Premier League, the UEFA Champions League, Emirates FA Cup, Tour de France, Winter Sport, the Australian Open, Roland-Garros and Gallagher Prem Rugby, among others. The sports catalogue itself does not change. What changes is where it lives.
For cycling fans, the shift is the latest in a series of platform moves after the closure of GCN+ and the disappearance of Eurosport UK coverage, which funnelled cycling rights toward TNT Sports. From Thursday, races including the Tour de France will stream through HBO Max rather than Discovery+.
Discovery+ will continue as a separate service, but it will no longer carry TNT Sports content after the migration date.
Warner Bros. Discovery is also offering TNT Sports bundled with HBO Max entertainment tiers. The entertainment plans start at £5.99 per month for a basic ad-supported tier, with higher tiers priced at £9.99 and up to £14.99 per month. To add TNT Sports to the package there is a long list of bundles. For just sport it is the usual £30.99 per month. However, there are special 'saver plans' available too.
The first is £25.99 a month for TNT Sports only for one year (a sensible option, perhaps?), a £27.99 option where you get TNT Sports with basic HBO that also has ads and limited downloads, a £30.99 a month option for TNT Sports and HBO without ads but the same 30 downloads limit, and the Premium HBO with TNT Sports for £34.99 a month that allows 100 downloads and 4K Dolby Atmos streaming where available.
The standard bundles with no discount sees the standard HBO with ads, download limits and TNT Sports start at £36.98 a month, the middle bundle of standard HBO without ads but with download limit plus TNT Sports start at £40.98 per month and the Premium HBO with 100 downloads, 4K Dolby Atmos and TNT Sports come to £45.98 per month. So, if you go for the year discounted, you MUST remember that these will be the charges after 12 months.
There doesn't appear to be a year up front option despite previous information suggesting there is.
The migration is part of Warner Bros. Discovery's broader push to consolidate sport and entertainment into a single international platform. HBO Max, which launched in the US in 2020 and now operates in over 110 territories, combines content from HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios and Max Originals alongside TNT Sports in the UK. The UK launch had been delayed by a long-running Sky licensing deal for HBO originals and Warner Bros. films, which was revised at the end of 2025.
For most existing subscribers, the step is to sign in to HBO Max with discovery+ credentials on or after 26 March. Those billed through partner platforms should check their specific route, as the transition handling varies.
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