HBO

Extracted Attributes

• Name

  Home Box Office (HBO)

• Type

  American premium television network and service

• Launch Date

  1972-11-08

• Headquarters

  30 Hudson Yards, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

• Business Model

  Subscription-based, no traditional advertising, unedited programming

• Current Operations

  Six 24-hour linear multiplex channels, HBO On Demand platform, content central to Max streaming platform

• Pioneering Achievement 1

  First subscription television service in the United States still in operation

• Pioneering Achievement 2

  First cable-originated television content service

• Pioneering Achievement 3

  First television service to be directly transmitted and distributed to individual cable television systems

• Pioneering Achievement 4

  First television channel in the world to begin transmitting via satellite

• U.S. Subscriber Count (as of Sep 2018)

  35.656 million households

• Worldwide Cumulative Subscriber Count (as of 2018)

  140 million subscribers in at least 151 countries

Timeline

• Charles Dolan was granted a franchise permit by the New York City Council to build a cable television system, which laid the groundwork for HBO. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1965-12-01

• HBO launched at 7:30 p.m. ET with its inaugural broadcast, an NHL game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks, to 365 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, PA. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search Results)

  1972-11-08

• HBO became the first television channel in the world to begin transmitting via satellite, expanding its regional pay service into a national television service. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  1975-09

• Selecciones en Español de HBO y Cinemax, an American Spanish language premium cable television service, was launched. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1989

• HBO, alongside sister channel Cinemax, was among the first two American pay television services to offer complimentary multiplexed channels. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1991-08

• Selecciones en Español de HBO y Cinemax was renamed HBO en Español. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1993-09

• HBO en Español ceased operation. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2000

• HBO's programming was available to approximately 35.656 million U.S. households and distributed to an estimated 140 million cumulative subscribers in at least 151 countries worldwide. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2018-09

• HBO celebrated its 50th anniversary. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2022-11-08

• Livestreams of most of HBO's linear feeds (except HBO Latino) became accessible on the Max streaming app for American subscribers of its Ad-Free and Ultimate Ad-Free tiers. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-12-04

HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network and service, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan. Programming featured on the service consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy, and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs (consisting of short films and making-of documentaries). HBO is the oldest subscription television service in the United States still in operation, as well as the country's first cable-originated television content service (both as a regional microwave- and national satellite-transmitted service). HBO pioneered modern pay television upon its launch on November 8, 1972: it was the first television service to be directly transmitted and distributed to individual cable television systems, and was the conceptual blueprint for the "premium channel", pay television services sold to subscribers for an extra monthly fee that do not accept traditional advertising and present their programming without editing for objectionable material. It eventually became the first television channel in the world to begin transmitting via satellite—expanding the growing regional pay service, originally available to cable and multipoint distribution service (MDS) providers in the northern Mid-Atlantic and southern New England, into a national television service—in September 1975, and, alongside sister channel Cinemax, was among the first two American pay television services to offer complimentary multiplexed channels in August 1991. The service operates six 24-hour, linear multiplex channels as well as a traditional subscription video on demand platform (HBO On Demand) and its content is the centerpiece of HBO Max (formerly Max), an expanded streaming platform operated separately from but sharing management with Home Box Office, Inc., which also includes original programming produced exclusively for the service and content from other Warner Bros. Discovery properties. Since December 4, 2024, livestreams of most of HBO's linear feeds (except for multiplex channel HBO Latino) are accessible on the Max streaming app to American subscribers of its Ad-Free and Ultimate Ad-Free tiers (exclusive to accounts with adult profiles). Linear East or West Coast HBO channel feeds are also available via Max's a la carte add-ons sold through Prime Video Channels, YouTube Primetime Channels, The Roku Channel and virtual pay television providers Hulu and YouTube TV (both of which sell their HBO/Max add-ons independently of their respective live TV tiers). As of September 2018, HBO's programming was available to approximately 35.656 million U.S. households that had a subscription to a multichannel television provider (34.939 million of which receive HBO's primary channel at minimum), giving it the largest subscriber total of any American premium channel. In addition to its U.S. subscriber base, HBO distributes its programming content in at least 151 countries worldwide to, as of 2018, an estimated 140 million cumulative subscribers.

Web Search Results

• HBO - Wikipedia

  Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television service, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan. Programming featured on the service consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, [...] Selecciones en Español de HBO y Cinemax (later renamed HBO en Español in September 1993) was an American Spanish language premium cable television service that was owned by Home Box Office, Inc., then a subsidiary of Time Warner, which operated from 1989 to 2000. The service's programming consisted of Spanish-dubbed versions of recent and older theatrically released motion pictures, and select HBO original and event programming aimed at a Hispanic and Latino audience. The service is a [...] | HBO | HBO, the flagship "Flagship (broadcasting)") channel, airs first-run and blockbuster feature films, original series, and made-for-cable movies, sports-focused magazine and documentary series, comedy and occasional concert specials, and documentaries. (Newer episodes of the channel's original series are mainly shown on Sunday and Monday evenings as well as on Fridays during the late prime time and late-access periods.) It also airs premieres of recent theatrical or new HBO original

• HBO | History, Shows, & Facts | Britannica Money

  HBO, American cable television company that arguably became the leading premium cable station for its mix of movies and innovative original programming. It was founded in 1972 by Time Inc. The company’s headquarters are located in New York City. [...] HBO—as its full name, Home Box Office, implied—originally emphasized uncut and commercial-free movies, and from the very beginning cable subscribers paid extra for the channel. In 1975 it became the first American network to deliver its programming by satellite and thus became the first national cable channel. Rival cable channels arose, including Showtime, which was owned by the media company Viacom Inc. [...] Entertainment & Pop Culture Literature Sports & Recreation Visual Arts Image GalleriesInfographicsPodcastsSummariesTop QuestionsBritannica Kids Read More Fox News ChannelWarner Bros. DiscoveryMTV # HBO American company Also known as: Home Box Office, Inc. Written byErik Gregersen Erik Gregersen

• HBO in the Archives: The Early Days of a Groundbreaking Network

  In the five decades since its launch, HBO has become one of the most respected brands in entertainment, known for both the quality of its programming—the network earned 127 Emmy nominations just this month—and its stunning reach—HBO, HBO Max, and its corporate sibling Discovery+ announced they had 96.1 million worldwide subscribers at the end of 2022. More recently, the network has been embroiled in shifts within its current parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, that saw the acclaimed [...] But long before this latest news and long before The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and Succession, HBO was just an experiment built around a radical idea—that people would consistently pay for premium TV. (Left) A copy of "HBO On Air"—a viewing guide for subscribers—from November 1975 featuring Burt Reynolds; (right) a card sent out to HBO subscribers explaining the benefits that they'd receive. [...] Skip to content Suggested Terms July 21, 2023 by Kerrie Mitchell in From the Stacks HBO in the Archives: The Early Days of a Groundbreaking Network On the stormy night of Nov. 8, 1972, at 7:30 pm, almost 400 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, PA, experienced the future of television. One of a new breed of “pay-cable” channels—called Home Box Office—started its first broadcast.

• History of HBO - Wikipedia

  Initially airing nightly on an open-ended schedule dependent on the length of the evening's programs (usually from 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. ET), Home Box Office's programming initially consisted solely of theatrical films—including four or five recent titles per month—and event programming. Each evening's schedule was arranged to present either a double feature (which, under FCC anti-siphoning rules then maintained to protect programming supply for broadcast stations until they were struck down [...] Home Box Office launched at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on November 8, 1972. The service's inaugural program and event telecast, a National Hockey League (NHL) game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks from Madison Square Garden, was transmitted that evening over channel 21—its original assigned channel on the Teleservice system—to its initial base of 365 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre. (A plaque commemorating the launch event is located at Public Square in downtown Wilkes-Barre, [...] HBO's origins trace to December 1, 1965, when Charles Dolan—a former marketer and distributor of sports and industrial films for television syndication, who had already done pioneering work in the commercial use of cables—was granted a franchise permit by the New York City Council to build a cable television system encompassing the Lower Manhattan section of New York City (traversing southward from 79th Street "79th Street (Manhattan)") on the Upper East Side to 86th Street "86th Street

• 50 years of HBO: a history of historic television - Euronews.com

  This week recognises the 50th anniversary of the American premium television channel HBO. When HBO was launched in 1972, television was the inferior artform to film. Today, it seems like the vast majority of prestige on the screen is coming out of our televisions. Film stars who once would have seen a series as beneath them now flock to tentpole shows for the opportunity to land a run in the sort of high-budget dramatic storylines that aren’t made as easily for the silver screen anymore. [...] On 8 November 1972, HBO launched across the US to just 365 paying subscribers. The first broadcast it made was a hockey game, the NHL game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks that was happening live at Madison Square Gardens. At the time, there weren’t any HBO commissioned shows, but alongside sport, the network also showed films. The hockey game was followed by the 1971 Paul Newman film ‘Sometimes a Great Nation’. [...] Owing to its subscription model, HBO has never needed to kowtow to advertisers’ needs. Instead, it's always just focused on bringing in quality television and film that audiences will connect with. It sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Make TV audiences want, and they will come. But HBO’s attitude has always been a step-apart. Decades before streaming platforms turned up to independently produce their shows, HBO was working out that audiences wanted prestige high-budget shows worth tuning in for.

• Instance Of

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