The owner of CNN and HBO Max, Warner Bros Discovery, says it will split into two companies by the middle of next year. The US media giant plans to separate its studio and streaming business away from its more traditional cable television networks.

The film and television giant will turn its cable networks, including CNN and TNT, into one company and its streaming and studios business into another.

Just three years after the iconic Warner Bros. film studio and television business was acquired for $43 billion by Discovery, the two companies are being split in two again. On one side will reside Warner Bros.