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| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Timeshift service | HBO Canada 1 (in-region feed) HBO Canada 2 (out-of-region feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Bell Media (Under license from WBD) |
| Sister channels | Crave |
| History | |
| Launched | October 30, 2008 |
| Replaced | MMore (Eastern Canada) Movie Central 4 (Western Canada) |
| Former names | HBO Canada (October 2008–June 2019) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Streaming media | |
| Crave | Over-the-top TV |
HBO (previously known as HBO Canada, and still referred to as such on social media) is a Canadian premium television network from Crave (formerly The Movie Network), which is owned by Bell Media under license from Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel is primarily devoted to original programming and special events sourced from the HBO and Cinemax subscription services in the U.S., as well as domestic motion pictures.
Although branded distinctly from Crave's other channels, HBO is not available in Canada as a standalone channel; it is only included with a subscription to either the Crave linear pay-TV service through a television provider, or the Crave OTT streaming service.
Home Box Office, Inc., the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary that operates HBO's U.S. and international services, is not a shareholder in the Canadian HBO channel, and only licenses the name, logo and programming to Bell Media.